Shooting his partner, then himself: How firearm access fuels domestic violence tragedies

Jasmine Mithani

Interim Data and Technology Reporter

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Roughly 19 women are killed with a firearm in domestic violence homicide-suicides each month, according to a new report released Thursday from Everytown for Gun Safety shared exclusively with The 19th.

“When we look at the public discourse on gun violence or on gun violence prevention, it tends to surround very public mass shootings,” said Sonali Rajan, senior director of research at the gun violence prevention nonprofit that advocates for gun control. The type of violence covered in the new report is a “conflation of two public health and public safety crises” — intimate partner violence and suicide.

Ninety-nine percent of incidents in the report, which looks at data from 2014