By: Jill McKinney

 Homicide  Suicide  Accidental  Natural causes  Undetermined  Court determines classifications

 9% of deaths are homicides.  It is the act of a human killing another human  Examples: someone shoots someone shoots someone else, someone stabs someone pushes someone else off a building

 Also 9% of deaths  Has to be intentional and self inflicted  Examples: someone shoots themselves, hangs themselves, or out of their own will jumps from a building.

 Makes the majority of deaths at 40%  Has to be unavoidable and unintentional  Examples: unexpected car crash, falling off a high place, cleaning a gun that was thought to be unloaded and accidentally shot themselves

 38% of deaths are natural  Has to be caused by an organ failure or disease  Examples: Heart attack, Cancer, or kidney failure

 4% of deaths  Can’t be determined because of lack of evidence or tampering of evidence Examples: police accidentally disturb the scene, weather has eroded evidence, little to no evidence was left behind