Murders in 2026 So Far:11
(2025 Total: 14)
Male Victims: 11
Female Victims: 0
Unknown: 0

Five year average number of homicides (2021 to 2025): 19.0
Five year average homicide rate per 100,000 (2021 to 2025): 1.74

Highest annual homicide totals recorded between 1961 and 2024:
The highest total—37 homicides—was reached in 2020

Nova Scotia Murder Victim List 2025 is available here

April
1 – Jason Allen Corbett, Male, 47, River Ryan
2 – Christopher Leggett, Male, 41, Shooting, Amherst
3 – Jazmine Nicholas-Cloud, Female, 25, New Waterford
4 – Steven Boudreau, Hopewell

May
5 – John Doe, Male, Other, Upper Musquodoboit
6 – John Pettipas, Male, 42, West Arm Tracadie
7 – Terry Izzard, Male, Unknown, Upper Big Tracadie

June
8 – John Doe, Male, Unknown, Greenfield
9 – Thomas Junior Downey, Male, 39, Shooting, Halifax
10 – Terrance Campbell, Male, Stabbing, Sydney

August
11 – John Doe, Male, Debert