Law enforcement casualties

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Law enforcement officers sustained casualties in six of the 34 active shooter incidents in 2025 with three officers killed and five wounded.

Government | 6 | TOTAL KILLED | 51 Civilian | 47 Education | 4 | Law Enforcement | 3 Security House of Worship 3 | 1

Law enforcement officers killed increased from one to three, although the number of officers wounded remained at five.

Three people sustained injuries, including two law enforcement officers and one civilian employee. Law enforcement exchanged gunfire and killed the shooter at the scene.

On Friday, August 8, 2025, at approximately 4:50 p.m., a 30 year old male armed with multiple weapons began shooting people from an elevated position across the street in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office buildings, killing one law enforcement officer. After exchanging gunfire with law enforcement, the shooter died by suicide at the scene.

Eight casualties involved law enforcement officers, and security personnel sustained two casualties.

Seven individuals were killed (including one law enforcement officer) and seven others were wounded (including one law enforcement officer). Attacks in open spaces caused 14% of fatalities and 8% of total casualties.

Attackers at government locations killed three (including one law enforcement officer) and wounded 13 (including three law enforcement officers).

Civilians | Law Enforcement 3 10 1 2 Killed | Wounded

While overall casualties were low compared to other location categories, 50% of law enforcement casualties (four) occurred in these attacks.

These exchanges resulted in three law enforcement injures and in every incident, at least two officers engaged the shooter.

In two incidents where gunfire was exchanged, officers sustained injuries during the exchange. At the Border Patrol Annex, law enforcement killed the attacker and two officers were wounded. At the Grand Sierra Resort, officers killed the shooter and one officer was wounded. | Open Space

At the SCSO incident in Idaho, an officer was wounded prior to the exchange.

Additionally, in the incident at the CDC in Georgia, an officer was killed prior to the exchange.

The shooter at the CDC died by suicide after he killed a law enforcement officer.

In several attacks, officers exchanged gunfire with the shooters to protect the public, sacrificing their own lives and safety in the process.

Furthermore, 88% of all law enforcement casualties and 100% of all security personnel casualties occurred in incidents where shooters exhibited predatory behavior.

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Nine law enforcement officers were killed and 48 were wounded.

SHOOTER RESOLUTIONS | TOTAL WOUNDED | 690 Apprehended | 120 | Civilian | 634 Suicide | 43 | Law Enforcement Security | 48 8

Killed by Law Enforcement | 43 Killed by Citizen | 6 | TOTAL KILLED | 382 At Large | 4 | Civilian | 368 Killed by Security | 2 | Law Enforcement | 9 Other | 1 | Security | 5

LE Officers Killed | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2

LE Officers Wounded | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 5

This bar chart compares the number of incidents in which law enforcement exchanged gunfire with a shooter to the number of law enforcement casualties resulting from the exchange of gunfire from 2021 through 2025.

17 | 2021 2021 | 1 | 3

9 | 2022 2022 | 1 | 16

12 2023 2023 2 11

6 | 2024 2024 | 1 | 5

5 | 2025 2025 | 3

Between 2021 and 2025, there were 43 law enforcement casualties, including five fatalities, resulting from an exchange of gunfire.