Columbus murders fall on the historical values in early 2025

Columbus recorded a significant decline in murders in the first months of 2025, the lowest in 15 years.
Mayor Andrew Ginther attributes the decline in increased cooperation in the municipality with the police and proactive violence prevention.
Other big cities such as New York and Chicago recorded similar drops in violent crimes.

According to data compiled by the city police, Columbus declined a striking murders in the early months 2025.

On April 28, according to the Columbus Division of Police, Columbus experienced 16 murders within the city limits. It has been the lowest number for this date for at least fifteen years.

The city has seen three more murders on two shootings since the city has put together its data, including a suspected murder self-murder that has left three deaths.

Last year Columbus had 26 murders until April 28th. In 2021, a record year for murders in Columbus, 66 people died by murder up to this date.

The number of the lowest murder counts from January 1 to April 28 in the past 15 years was 25 years that the city reached in 2013 and 2015.

Columbus also recorded a decline in the underage attack, which includes shootings. 230 were reported by April 28, from 293 in 2024 and 437 in 2023. 145 weapons were involved from the 230 crime cases.

Columbus is not alone. Cities across the country have a decline in violent crimes. In the first quarter of 2025, the very few shootings in the New York police department had the most shootings in the listed story. Chicago also reported a decline in murders in the first months of 2025.

Violence crimes increased during the Covid 19 pandemic, and in most major cities in most major cities in 2024 either returned to pre-Pandemic level, the non-partisan criminal judicial council for criminal justice said in an annual report.

The mayor of Columbus, Andrew Ginther, said the numbers represent a “historical” drop. He said that he believes that the decline in the murders is based on the efforts of the Columbus police department of the police, in particular the efforts to improve cooperation with the community. He said the Columbus police received more tips from the residents than ever before.

Ginther said the department also focused on solving more non -fatal shootings. The solution to this also prevents future fatal shootings, he said.

“If you often do not have fatal shooting and do not get this shooter off the street, there will soon be a retaliation process,” said Ginther.

Ginther also referred to the work of the Columbus Office of Violence Prevention, which was founded in 2023. The office leads the reduction in violence into Columbus, which is at risk that the risk of being victims or perpetrators of violence and attempts to intervene before violence is incorporated.

Ginther also evaluated improved lighting and more surveillance cameras for the contribution to the decline in fatal violence.

Malissa Thomas St. Clair, founder of mothers of murdered Columbus children, said that she monitored the crime data as part of her work precisely the police from Columbus sends her data in real time.

Mothers of murdered Columbus Children, a non -profit organization that represents families of people who die from murder, started working with the city and other local organizations, including non -profit organizations and faith institutions to use crime data to make Columbus safer.

The end goal is to bring the number of murders in Columbus under 100, which the city saw last in 2015, when 99 people died with murder. Last year Columbus reported 124 murders, from a highlight of 205 in 2021.

St. Clair said she was talking to members of the Columbus Division of Police every day. She agreed that the police received more shared tips than ever and said that non -profit organizations with which they are working closely are able to use police officers to support their missions. When an organization sells weapons locks, you can see where the shootings are highest and, for example, target these postcodes.

“I think the community and law enforcement authorities are the highest in collaborative work,” said St. Clair.

St. Clair said that the collaboration did not exist years ago when Mothers of Columbus Children were founded in 2020. However, she said that work was still to be done. Murders for domestic violence remain high, and the city's office prevention is working to find ways to prevent this murders, she said.

Columbus is not the only city in which the shootings have recorded considerable drops. In the first quarter of 2025, the very few shootings in the New York police department had the most shootings in the listed story. Chicago also reported a decline in murders in the first months of 2025.

Bailey Gallion from public security and Breaking News Reporter can be reached at Bagallion@dispatch.com.

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