Police incident data show that there were 105 homicides in Charlotte in 2025, down from 111 that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police reported for 2024.
The 105 includes eight homicides in which CMPD did not bring charges because investigators determined the killings to be “justified.”
In an email to The Charlotte Observer, CMPD officials said they responded to 97 homicides in 2025. But on the police department’s website, data show the 105. The number 97 does not include the ‘justified’ homicides…