# List of homicides in Michigan

This is a list of homicides in Michigan. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Michigan that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows:
* Multiple homicides - homicides having multiple victims, including incidents involving race riots, mass killings involving organized crime, familicides, a school bombing, a school shooting, a post office shooting, and spree killers.
* Serial killers - persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them
* Single homicides - notable homicides involving a single fatality

## Multiple homicides

Listed in chronological order
| Incident | Location | Date | Deaths | Description |
| Morris murders | Decatur | 1879 | 2 | Unsolved murders of Charles Henry Morris and Esther Jones Morris |
| Seeberville Murders | Seeberville | 1913-08-14 | 2 | Shooting deaths of two striking miners during the Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 |
| Bath school disaster | Bath Township | 1927-05-18 | 44 | Violent attacks by Andrew Kehoe, including detonation of explosives at school building |
| Milaflores Massacre | Detroit | 1927 | 3 | Shooting of three gangsters, suspected of having been perpetrated to The Purple Gang |
| Collingwood Manor Massacre | Detroit | 1931-09-16 | 3 | Gang hit on three Chicago gunmen by members of The Purple Gang |
| Ford Hunger March | Dearborn | 1932 | 5 | Confrontation between unemployed auto workers and Dearborn police and Ford security, 5 workers shot to death, more than 60 injured |
| 1943 Detroit race riot | Detroit | 1943-06 | 34 | Riots among black and white residents, 34 killed, 433 wounded |
| Troy axe murders | Troy | 1964-09-28 | 7 | Murder of 7 by father after release from mental hospital |
| 1967 Detroit riot | Detroit | 1967-07-23-28 | 43 | Race riot in which 43 people were killed |
| Algiers Motel incident | Detroit | 1967-07-25/26 | 3 | Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit |
| Robison family murders | Good Hart | 1968-06-25 | 6 | Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage |
| Hazelwood massacre | Detroit | 1971-06-14 | 8 | Execution-style hit killing at house in Detroit |
| Donald Goines | Highland Park | 1974-10-21 | 2 | Author of urban fiction murdered with his common-law wife in their apartment |
| Ann Arbor Hospital murders | Ann Arbor | 1975 | 10 | Murders of 10 patients by intravenous administration of curare drug at VA hospital by nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez. |
| Livernois–Fenkell riot | Detroit | 1975-08-01 | 2 | Bar owner shot black teenager. Mob beat to death dishwasher who was Nazi concentration camp survivor |
| Rock Road massacre | Farwell | 1982-02-16 | 7 | Murder of 7 members of the Post family by former Army sharpshooter |
| Jeffrey Gorton | Romulus Flint | 1991-02-17 1986-11-09 | 2 | Convicted of rape and murder of a flight attendant and professor at UM-Flint |
| Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood | Walker | 1987 | 5 | Nurses aides who killed five elderly women at Alpine Manor nursing homes |
| Murder of the DeLisle children | Wyandotte | 1989-08-03 | 4 | Father killed his four children (ages 10 months to 8 years) by driving station wagon into the Detroit River |
| Royal Oak post office shootings | Royal Oak | 1991-11-14 | 5 | Former employee opened fire at the Royal Oak Post Office, killing four employees, then himself |
| 1997 Detroit shootings | Detroit | 1997-03-11 | 4 | A gunman opened fire at a Comerica branch bank, killing two employees and one customer. He was then killed by police |
| Marvin Gabrion | Cedar Springs | 1997 | 1-5 | Convicted murderer, suspected serial killer |
| Jack Kevorkian | Waterford Township | 1998-09-17 | 1+ | Pathologist and euthanasia proponent convicted of second-degree murder for administering lethal injection of potassium chloride to Thomas Youk |
| Seth Privacky | Muskegon | 1998-11-29 | 5 | At age 18, killed his parents, brother, brother's girlfriend and grandfather |
| 2011 Grand Rapids shootings | Grand Rapids | 2011-07-07 | 8 | Spree killing |
| Murders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla | Detroit | 2012-07 | 2 | Two white teenagers tortured and murdered in Detroit by two black males |
| 2016 Kalamazoo shootings | Kalamazoo | 2016-02-20 | 6 | Shootings at an apartment complex, car dealership and restaurant |
| St. Joseph courthouse shooting | St. Joseph | 2016-07-11 | 3 | Shooting by inmate at Berrien County Courthouse, killing two bailiffs and himself |
| Central Michigan University shooting | Mount Pleasant | 2018-03-02 | 2 | 19-year-old student James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed parents when they arrived to take him home for spring break |
| 2021 Oxford High School shooting | Oxford | 2021-11-30 | 4 | School shooting perpetrated by sophomore Ethan Crumbley |
| 2022 Detroit shootings | Detroit | 2022-08-22 | 3 | 19-year-old man opened fire in Detroit randomly killing three people over span of two hours |

## Serial killers

Listed in chronological order by date of earliest homicide
| Incident | Location | Date | Deaths | Description |
| Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck | Grand Rapids | 1949 | 3–17 | Serial killer couple targeting widows and "lonely hearts" |
| John Rodney McRae | St. Clair Shores | 1950-1987 | 2–5+ | Serial killer convicted of murdering two boys and prime suspect in three others |
| Roland E. Clark | Multiple | 1954-1967 | 2 | Medical doctor convicted of two counts of manslaughter |
| Henry Lee Lucas | Michigan and Texas | 1960–1983 | 3 confirmed, claimed over 250 | Serial killer who claimed to have killed over 250 persons |
| Rudy Bladel | Multiple | 1963–1978 | 3–7 | Serial killer responsible for murders of seven railway employees, convicted of three of them |
| Larry and Danny Ranes | Kalamazoo | 1964 | 1–5 | Serial killers |
| Michigan Murders | Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti | 1967-1969 | 7 + | Murders of female college students by serial killer John Norman Collins, aka the Co-Ed Killer and the Ypsilanti Ripper, in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area |
| Carl Eugene Watts | Michigan and Texas | 1974-1982 | 14-100+ | Serial killer known as "The Sunday Morning Slasher" |
| Bigfoot Killer | Detroit | 1975 | 7 | Serial killer who raped and murdered seven girls and women between February and October 1975 |
| Anthony Guy Walker | Lenawee County | 1975-1986 | 6+ | Serial killer responsible for at least six murders |
| Oakland County Child Killer | Oakland County | 1976-1977 | 4+ | Serial killings of children |
| Donald Gene Miller | East Lansing | 1977-1978 | 4 | Serial killer known as "The East Lansing Serial Killer" |
| Donald Murphy | Detroit | 1979–1980 | 2–6+ | Serial killer convicted of murdering two women, confessed to killing at least six |
| Michael Darnell Harris | Various | 1981-1982 | 4–10 | Serial killer and rapist |
| Richard Clarey | New Buffalo | 1984-04-15 | 3+ | German-American serial killer and Neo-Nazi sympathizer |
| Benjamin Atkins | Detroit | 1991-1992 | 11 | Serial killer and rapist known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer" who murdered 11 women |
| Leslie Allen Williams | Oakland and Genesee Counties | 1991-1992 | 4 | Serial killer, rapist and necrophile convicted in the deaths of four teenage girls |
| John Eric Armstrong | Detroit | 1992-1999 | 5-11+ | Serial killer convicted of killing five sex workers in Detroit |
| Shelly Brooks | Detroit | 2001-2006 | 7–20+ | Serial killer murdered at least seven women |
| Elias Abuelazam | Genesee County | 2010 | 1-5 | Israeli suspected of 18 stabbings resulting five deaths, convicted of one death |
| Deangelo Martin | Detroit | 2018-2019 | 4 | Serial killer convicted of murdering four women and raping two others |
| Kenyel Brown | Wayne County | 2019-2020 | 6 | Serial killer who committed suicide prior to trial |

## Single homicides

| Incident | Location | Date | Description |
| James Strang | St. James Township | 1856-06-16 | Religious leader, successor to Joseph Smith, shot three times in the back |
| Fabian Fournier | Bay City | c. 1875 | Lumberjack killed by a blow to the head with a mallet |
| Gaspar Milazzo | Detroit | 1930-05-31 | Organized crime figure murdered at the Vernor Highway Fish Market |
| Jerry Buckley | Detroit | 1930-07-23 | Radio commentator shot and killed after successful campaign to recall Detroit mayor |
| Tony Chebatoris | Midland | 1937-09-29 | Bank robber who shot and killed a bystander while trying to escape; also the only man executed in Michigan |
| Carson James | Clawson | 1950 | Former Marine sergeant killed his father and buried him beneath a cow shed in Troy Township |
| Shooting of Maurice Chenoweth | Big Bay | 1952-07-31 | Shooting defended by John D. Voelker and later the basis of Anatomy of a Murder |
| Murder of Aziz Hermiz | Detroit | 1956-02-10 | Chaldean-Assyrian grocer murdered by the wife's paramour, wife found not guilty due to insanity |
| Reggie Harding | Detroit | 1972-09-02 | Detroit Pistons player shot in the head |
| Murder of Dawn Magyar | Chapin | 1973-01-27 | 20-year-old woman abducted from a shopping center and found dead in woods |
| Jimmy Hoffa | Bloomfield Township | 1975-07-30 | Former president of the Teamsters union disappeared from meeting with organized crime figures, body never discovered |
| Richard Frederick Dixon | Casco Township | 1976-01-09 | Convicted of 1971 hijacking of passenger flight from Detroit to Cuba and of 1976 murder of a South Haven police officer |
| Francine Hughes | Dansville | 1977-03-09 | Woman set fire to bed, killing abusive ex-husband, found not guilty by reason of insanity, later made into book and TV movie The Burning Bed |
| Eddie Jefferson | Detroit | 1979-05-09 | Jazz vocalist shot by a disgruntled dancer outside Baker's Keyboard Lounge |
| Killing of Vincent Chin | Highland Park | 1982-06-19 | Racially-motivated assault and murder of Chinese American draftsman by a Chrysler plant supervisor and a laid-off autoworker |
| Murder of Aundria Bowman | Hamilton | 1989-03-11 | Teenager who disappeared after accusing adoptive father of molesting her |
| Shaka Senghor | Detroit | 1991 | MIT fellow convicted of shooting a man |
| Death of Malice Green | Detroit | 1992-11-05 | Green died of blunt force trauma in assault by Detroit police officers Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers, both officers convicted and imprisoned |
| Robert Hawkins | Detroit | 1993-11-28 | Former Detroit Pistons player shot and killed in a crack house |
| Lowell Amos | Detroit | 1994-12 | General Motors plant manager convicted of killing his third wife, later subject of TV movie called Black Widower |
| Murder of Scott Amedure | Lake Orion | 1995-03-09 | Murder following appearance on The Jenny Jones Show episode "Revealing Same Sex Secret Crush", in which the victim revealed his same-sex attraction to the perpetrator |
| Sharee Miller | Mount Morris | 1999-11 | Woman convicted of plotting the murder of her husband over the Internet with her online lover |
| Killing of Kayla Rolland | Mount Morris | 2000-02-29 | Six-year-old girl shot at school by six-year-old classmate |
| Duane Thomas | Detroit | 2000-06 | Welterweight boxer murdered over a drug dispute |
| George Trapp | Detroit | 2002-01 | NBA player stabbed in stomach in fight with roommate |
| Blade Icewood | Detroit | 2005-04-19 | Rapper fatally shot due to gang-related violence |
| Nancy Seaman | Oakland County | 2005-05-10 | Former teacher killed her husband with a hatchet, convicted despite claim of history of marital abuse |
| Proof | Detroit | 2006-04-11 | Rapper shot and killed while playing billiards at a club |
| Murder of Laura Dickinson | Ypsilanti | 2006-12-13 | Eastern Michigan University murdered in her dormitory room, scandal led to firing of university's president |
| Murder of Tara Lynn Grant | Macomb County | 2007-02-09 | Murdered and dismembered by her husband |
| Murder of Jodi Parrack | Constantine | 2007-11-08 | 11-year-old girl kidnapped while riding her bicycle |
| Murder of Matt Landry | Detroit | 2009-08-09 | 21-year-old car jacked at an Eastpointe restaurant, found in an abandoned home in Detroit, shot execution style by 2 teens. |
| Murder of Jim Pouillon | Owosso | 2009-09-11 | Activist shot while protesting against abortion in front of Owosso High School |
| Murder of Jamar Pinkney Jr. | Detroit | 2009-11-16 | Execution-style shooting of 15-year-old boy by his father |
| Killing of Aiyana Jones | Detroit | 2010-05-16 | Seven-year old girl shot and killed by police during raid, jury deadlock on involuntary manslaughter charge against officer |
| Death of Jane Bashara | Detroit | 2012-01-24 | Grosse Pointe marketing executive strangled by hitman hired by husband and left in back seat of her Mercedes-Benz SUV in an alley in Detroit |
| Murder of Robert Cipriano | Farmington Hills | 2012-04-16 | Murder committed by 19-year-old adopted son |
| Murder of Jessica Heeringa | Norton Shores | 2013-04-26 | 25-year-old woman disappeared while working at an Exxon gas station |
| Murder of Renisha McBride | Dearborn Heights | 2013-11-02 | 19-year-old woman crashed her car while intoxicated and was shot when knocking at a nearby house seeking assistance |
| Killing of Collin Rose | Detroit | 2016-11-22 | Wayne State police officer shot after stopping a bicyclist |
| Robert Eddins | Detroit | 2016-12-20 | NFL linebacker murdered in Detroit |
| 2017 Interstate 75 rock-throwing deaths | Vienna Township | 2017-10-18 | Six-pound rock thrown by teenagers crashed through van windshield and killed passenger |
| Killing of Patrick Lyoya | Grand Rapids | 2022-04-22 | 26-year-old refugee from Congo shot and killed during scuffle following vehicle stop |
| Murder of Jim Matthews | Chesterfield Township | 2022-09-23 | News-radio anchor beaten to death by friend of his live-in girlfriend |