In 2007:
Intimate partners committed 14% of all homicides in the U.S., killing an estimated 1,640 women and 700 men.
1,818 women in the US were killed by men in single victim/single offender incidents, as reported to the FBIs
2009 Supplementary Homicide Reports. Where the victim/offender relationship was known, 63% were killed by an intimate partner (likely an underestimate, as ex-girlfriends were not included) 550 of them with
firearms most often handguns.
Black women were murdered at a rate nearly 2.5 times higher than white women: 2.62 per 100,000 versus 1.06 per 100,000.