Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter is a Clery Act reportable offense category - intentional killing of one person by another.. Across the 3-year reporting window from 2022 to 2024, US colleges and universities cumulatively reported 69 murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents on-campus. The most recent year on record (2024) shows 19 incidents, reported by 18 of the 5,585 institutions in the survey, an average of 1.06 among the institutions that reported any. Year-over-year, murder / non-negligent manslaughter reporting fell by 29.6% - a signal that should be read alongside reporting-practice changes, not only real-world incidence.
Crime record / national series 2024 Clery survey
Federal campus-safety record
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter on campus
National reporting patterns for murder / non-negligent manslaughter across 5,585 U.S. colleges and universities.
reported incidents 19 2024 national total
18 campuses reported at least one
99.7% of surveyed campuses reported none
-29.6% latest year-over-year change
Offense plate
Sheet CRIME-MURDER-/-NON · Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter 2024 · 18 reporters
TIER-RARE · SIL-HIGH · TRD-PEAK · GEO-REG · GRP-CRIM · INC-TOT · YR-2024 · SRC-OPE
- TIER-RARE Rare reporters
- SIL-HIGH 99.7% zero
- TRD-PEAK Peaked
- GEO-REG Regional
- GRP-CRIM #9 in group
- INC-TOT 19
- YR-2024 2024
- SRC-OPE OPE Clery
Offense plate for Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter: reporting tier, zero-reporting share, trend shape, geographic breadth, and Clery group rank. Every stamp is derived from this offence's federal extract, not portal boilerplate.
19 murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents reported on U.S. campuses in 2024
According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, U.S. colleges reported 19 on-campus murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents in 2024, from 18 of 5,585 surveyed institutions, a 29.6% fall versus the prior year. University of Colorado Colorado Springs leads the named campus list with 2 incidents. These are filed reports, not a personal risk forecast, and zeros are common for many offence types.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- 2024 national total
- 19
- Campuses reporting ≥1
- 18
- Surveyed campuses with zero
- 99.7%
- Year-over-year change
- -29.6%
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter briefing
What the murder / non-negligent manslaughter national total does, and does not, show
The peak year for murder / non-negligent manslaughter reporting was 2023 with 27 incidents. An average of 20 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents in 2024 is University of Colorado Colorado Springs in Colorado Springs, CO with 2 incidents (11% of the national total).
Within criminal offenses reported in 2024, murder / non-negligent manslaughter is the 9th most-reported of 11 offences, at 0.1% of the group's 33,224 incidents. Reporting is concentrated: the single highest-reporting institution accounts for 11% of the 2024 national total. With 11% of the 2024 national total at one institution, the ranking below describes that campus's reporting more than any national pattern, and a change in how it records murder / non-negligent manslaughter would move the whole table.
Reporting is geographically partial: only 15 states and territories recorded a murder / non-negligent manslaughter incident at all in 2024, with GA alone accounting for 15.8% of them. A state missing from that list has not been shown to be safer; it recorded nothing, which is a different claim. The counts cover on-campus locations only, noncampus and public-property incidents being separate Clery Act categories.
The peak is behind the latest year
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter reporting did not move in one direction across this window. It reached 27 incidents in 2023 and stood at 19 in 2024, so the most recent figure is below the window's high rather than at it. Reading only the latest year against the earliest would hide that turn.
The survey population was unchanged across the window at 5,585 institutions, so the shape is not produced by schools entering or leaving the dataset. Among institutions that reported at least one incident, the average moved from 1.1 to 1.1.
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter reporting window
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter year-by-year trend
2022 23
2023 27
2024 19
| Year | Total Incidents | Schools Reporting ≥1 | Surveyed | Avg Among Reporters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23 | 20 | 5,585 | 1.15 |
| 2023 | 27 | 23 | 5,585 | 1.17 |
| 2024 | 19 | 18 | 5,585 | 1.06 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Clery Act Campus Safety Survey · 2024 National trend for Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter. Counts cover on-campus incidents; 18 of 5,585 surveyed institutions reported at least one in 2024.
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter: campuses with the most reports (2024)
A visible cluster at the top
Three campuses hold 21.1% of the 2024 total: University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Kennesaw State University and Rice University. That group is large enough to shape the headline but not large enough to stand in for the country; the first 18 rows together reach 100%. Compare both the cluster and the remaining reporters before treating a high raw count as typical.
The trio averages 1.3 incidents per campus, against 1.0 among the other 15 reporters. The gap is visible, but most incidents still sit beyond those three rows.
This is the complete national list: all 18 institutions that recorded any murder / non-negligent manslaughter in 2024, not a top-20 extract. At these counts a per-1,000-students rate is not meaningful, so none is shown.
| # | Institution | State | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Colorado Colorado Springs Colorado Springs | CO | 2 |
| 2 | Kennesaw State University Kennesaw | GA | 1 |
| 3 | Rice University Houston | TX | 1 |
| 4 | Geneva College Beaver Falls | PA | 1 |
| 5 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater | OK | 1 |
| 6 | Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa | OK | 1 |
| 7 | University of North Carolina at Pembroke Pembroke | NC | 1 |
| 8 | Saint Peter's University Jersey City | NJ | 1 |
| 9 | Campbellsville University Campbellsville | KY | 1 |
| 10 | Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis | IN | 1 |
| 11 | Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago | IL | 1 |
| 12 | University of Georgia Athens | GA | 1 |
| 13 | Albany State University Albany | GA | 1 |
| 14 | University of South Florida Tampa | FL | 1 |
| 15 | Delaware State University Dover | DE | 1 |
| 16 | Santa Monica College Santa Monica | CA | 1 |
| 17 | University of Arizona Tucson | AZ | 1 |
| 18 | Tuskegee University Tuskegee | AL | 1 |