Ohio has seen a spike in domestic violence deaths from July 2024 to June 2025, a new report shows

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Domestic violence fatalities spiked in Ohio this past year.

There were 157 intimate partner relationship fatalities in 108 cases from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, according to a new report from the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. There were 114 fatalities in the previous report.

This is the tenth year of the report, which the Ohio Domestic Violence Network compiles using statistics from media reports of intimate partner relationship fatalities.

Ohio fatalities in the last 10 years:

157 in 2025

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