Table 3.
Distribution of older adult homicide incident characteristics using the National Violent Death Reporting System Data from 2003 to 2017
| Incident Characteristics | Total (N = 5961) N (%) |
Firearm Homicides (n = 2579) n (%) |
Non-firearm Homicides (n = 3382) n (%) |
Prevalence Difference (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide-suicide | 675 (11.3) | 595 (23.1) | 80 (2.4) | 20.7 (19.0, 22.4) |
| Multiple victim incident | 551 (9.2) | 338 (13.1) | 213 (6.3) | 6.8 (5.3, 8.3) |
| Legal intervention death of perpetrator | 33 (0.6) | 21 (0.8) | 12 (0.4) | 0.4 (0.06, 0.9) |
| Intimate partner violence | 1003 (16.8) | 687 (26.6) | 316 (9.3) | 17.3 (15.3, 19.3) |
| Precipitated by argument | 1590 (26.7) | 594 (23.0) | 996 (29.5) | −6.5 (−8.7, −4.2) |
| Precipitated by another serious crime | 1871 (31.4) | 753 (29.2) | 1118 (33.1) | −3.9 (−6.2, −1.5) |
| Mercy killing | 79 (1.3) | 70 (2.7) | 9 (0.3) | 2.4 (1.8, 3.1) |
| Drug involvement | 240 (4.0) | 100 (3.9) | 140 (4.1) | −0.2 (−1.3, 0.7) |
| Led by Brawl | 39 (0.7) | 8 (0.3) | 31 (0.9) | −0.6 (−1.0, − 0.2) |
| Gang-related | 46 (0.8) | 39 (1.5) | 7 (0.2) | 1.3 (0.8, 1.8) |
| Precipitated by Jealousy | 50 (0.8) | 32 (1.2) | 18 (0.5) | 0.7 (0.2, 1.2) |
| Justifiable self-defense | 54 (0.9) | 41 (1.6) | 13 (0.4) | 1.2 (0.7, 1.7) |