Connecticut recorded 22 family-violence homicide victims in 2025, compared with 19 the previous year, according to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection’s annual family-violence report.
Those deaths accounted for 31% of the 70 murders counted statewide in the report. These are historical 2025 figures, not a measure of incidents occurring this week.
The report’s family-violence category extends beyond current or former intimate partners. Its definition also includes relatives and some people who live together or previously shared a household. The total should not be described as 22 intimate-partner killings.
Separately, the report counted 15,750 family-violence incidents resulting in arrest, a decline from 16,091 in 2024. That measure covers reported incidents meeting the report’s arrest-based scope; it does not measure every experience of abuse.
The report says its arrest data were submitted through June 1, 2026, and warns that later information can change previously published counts.
In an October 26 report, NBC Connecticut quoted Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence president Meghan Scanlon calling for broader prevention efforts. The broadcaster reported that the coalition was working with the Division of Criminal Justice toward a task force to examine crime data and recommend responses; it did not establish completed recommendations.
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