Murder-suicide statistics
According to the most recent report from the Violence Policy Center (American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States). "During the six-month period tallied in this study, there were 264 suicides -- yet the total number of deaths was 591. More people died from murders associated with the suicide than from the suicides themselves." More information can be found at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/murder-suicide.htm
* Most murder-suicides involve a firearm
* 94% of offenders are male
* 74% of victims are intimate partners
* 75% of murder-suicides occur in the home
* Police may have higher murder-suicide rates
* 23% of murder-suicides involved the elderly
* Most murder-suicides with multiple victims are by male family annihilators
* Fathers who kill children usually kill their children's mothers, but the reverse is not the case
