How many murders in Washington DC in September, October, and November 2025?
Executive summary
Available public reporting and police data in the supplied sources do not provide a single, explicit count of murders in Washington, D.C., broken out only for September, October and November 2025; instead, official MPD tallies and news outlets report monthly examples and rolling year‑to‑date totals (for example: 123 homicides in 2025 year‑to‑date; 62 homicides since May 25) [1] [2]. Major-case lists show named homicide dates in September and October (e.g., Najii Mercer, Sept. 7; Jermaine Durbin, Oct. 3) but do not produce a complete month-by-month total in the results provided [3].
1. What the sources actually report about 2025 homicides
News outlets and fact‑checks cite MPD year‑to‑date and since‑deployment totals rather than a clean three‑month subtotal. AP and ABC note 123 homicides in D.C. so far in 2025 and 62 homicides occurring since May 25, 2025 — figures that are cumulative and not limited to Sept–Nov [1] [2]. PBS reported 99 homicides as of August 2025, again a year‑to‑date figure [4]. Local fact checks also note November alone had multiple murders (seven reported in some MPD summaries), but they do not sum Sept+Oct+Nov for us in these excerpts [5].
2. What law‑enforcement data fragments reveal (and their limits)
The MPD’s public pages and the city’s open data are the primary sources for counts, but the search results show only snippets: an MPD “Major Case/Unsolved Homicides – 2025” page lists named incidents with dates (including September and October entries), which confirms homicides occurred in those months but does not present a consolidated monthly total in the returned text [3]. The broader “District Crime Data at a Glance” page is cited for year‑to‑date comparisons through Nov. 26, 2025, but the snippet does not quote specific monthly counts [6]. The opendata.dc.gov crime dataset exists to derive exact month totals, but that raw dataset content was not included among these results [7].
3. Examples from the dataset of individual September–November incidents
The Major Case page explicitly names victims tied to specific dates: Najii Mercer — September 7, 2025; Jermaine Durbin — October 3, 2025; and others listed across months, proving homicides during those months [3]. News reporting also references November shootings tied to high‑profile events (for example, the Nov. 26 shooting near Farragut West involving guard members) and multiple November homicides reported by MPD in local outlets [8] [9] [5]. These items corroborate that murders occurred in September, October and November, but they do not present totals for each month in supplied snippets.
4. Conflicting public narratives and why precise monthly totals matter
Political claims about extended “no murder” streaks prompted numerous fact checks. Multiple outlets (AP, ABC, PBS, FactCheck.org, local DC News Now) countered such claims by citing MPD and year‑to‑date homicide totals — showing declines year‑over‑year but not absence of homicides — and by pointing to multiple murders in late 2025 [1] [2] [4] [10] [5]. These sources highlight two competing narratives: officials and advocates saying homicides have fallen in 2025, and political actors claiming safety achieved by federal action; the available reporting emphasizes that homicides continued to occur after federal deployments [1] [2].
5. How you can get the exact Sept–Nov 2025 count (and why I can’t invent it)
Available sources here point to primary data portals (MPD pages, the city’s crime open data) that contain monthly incident records [6] [7] [3]. The excerpts provided, however, do not contain a ready subtotal for September, October and November 2025. To produce an exact count I would need to sum MPD’s or the open dataset’s incident entries for those three months; those full tables are not present in the supplied results. The correct next step is to query the MPD monthly crime reports or download/filter the “Crime Incidents in 2025” dataset on opendata.dc.gov for incident_date between 2025‑09‑01 and 2025‑11‑30 and select homicides (noted in the opendata metadata) [7] [6].
6. Bottom line and recommended source actions
Bottom line: all provided reporting confirms homicides occurred in September, October and November 2025 (with named cases listed on MPD’s Major Case page and multiple November murders referenced in local reporting), but the supplied snippets do not give a single, sourced numeric total for those three months combined [3] [5] [8]. For a definitive count, consult MPD’s monthly crime reports or the DC Open Data “Crime Incidents in 2025” dataset and filter for homicides in Sept–Nov 2025 [6] [7].