Expanded Homicide Data Table 5

Murder
Age of Victim by Age of Offender, 2015
[Single victim/single offender]
Age of offender
Age of victim Total Under 18 18 and over Unknown
Total 6,137 257 5,625 255
Under 18 520 86 419 15
18 and over 5,573 171 5,166 236
Unknown 44 0 40 4
NOTE: This table is based on incidents where some information about the offender is
known by law enforcement; therefore, when the offender age, sex, and race are all
reported as unknown, these data are excluded from the table.