ListenStudy: 1 in 50 HCMC violent trauma patients ended up as victims or perpetrators of homicides
A new study is highlighting hospitals as a key component to gun violence prevention. Researchers with Minnesota-based organization The Violence Prevention Project and HCMC linked patient data from 2013-2022 and Minneapolis homicide data from 2018-2022. They found that 1 in 50 patients admitted to HCMC for violent injury, later appeared in homicide records as a victim, a perpetrator or both.
The results also show patients were disproportionately young and male, and injury locations clustered in socioeconomically disadvantage neighborhoods. The median time between prior trauma admissions and homicide involvement was 3.5 years…