CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland officials underreported homicide numbers last year to both the public and the FBI’s annual crime report, data shows.

The department reported it had 114 homicides in city data but listed 110 to the FBI’s annual crime report.

However, a review by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer showed 126 homicides in the city, depending on the way the incidents are counted.

That number excludes a killing in the city that was investigated by Cleveland Metroparks police and three other shootings from prior years where the victim died in 2024. One of those deaths happened 40 years after the victim was shot.

A Cleveland police spokesman said the difference in the numbers was largely because police count only criminal homicides, while Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gil

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