Murders in 2026 So Far:68
(2025 Total: 89)
Male Victims: 53
Female Victims: 12
Unknown: 3
The British Columbia Murder Victim List 2025 is available here
Five-year average number of homicides (2021 to 2025): 117.0
Five-year average homicide rate per 100,000 (2021 to 2025): 2.06
Highest annual homicide totals recorded between 1961 and 2024:
The highest total—155 homicides—was reached in 2022
January
1 – Laura Gover, Saanich
2 – Muhammad “Ash” Zafar, Male, Kamloops
3 – Navpreet Dhaliwal, Male, 26, Abbotsford
4 – Naseem Mohammed, Male, Other, Surrey
5 – Baljinder “Binder” Singh Garcha, Male, 46, Shooting, Surrey
6 – Jane Doe, Female, 30, Abbotsford
7 – Christopher Jumal Sanderson, Male, 48, Stabbing, Vancouver
8 – Dilraj Singh Gill, Male, 28, Shooting, Burnaby
9 – John Doe, Male, Quesnel
10 – Unknown Male, Shooting, Surrey
11 – Gordon D Perreault Jr , Male, 18, Beating, Kelowna
12 – Unknown Victim, Delta
February
13 – Masood Masjoody, Male, 45, Missing (Police believe criminality was involved), Burnaby
14 – Shannda Aviugana-Durand, Female, 39, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
15 – Abel Mwansa, Male, 12, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
16 – Ezekiel Schofield, Male, 13, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
17 – Kylie Smith, Female, 12, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
18 – Emmett Jacobs, Male, 11, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
19 – Zoey Benoit,Female, 12, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
20 – Ticaria Lampert, Female, 12, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
21 –Jennifer Jacobs, Female, 39, Shooting, Tumbler Ridge
22 –Kristopher Benson, Male, Shooting, Chilliwack
23 –Clive Hack, Male, 63, Merritt
March
24 – Corey Ott, Male, Shooting, Lumby
25 – Dwight Nelson Male, 49, Chilliwack
26 – Emmanuel Brooks Shooting, Kamloops
27 – Gurkirat Manocha, Male, 25, Charlie Lake
28 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Port Alberni
29 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Surrey
30 – John Doe, Male, Maple Ridge
31 – Zachery Rider, Male, 45, Unknown, Surrey
32 – Wayne Versfelt, Male, 69, Shooting, Abbotsford
33 – Jane Doe, Female, Duncan
34 – Isaiah Elijah Hector Cecil-Johnny, Male, Unknown, Vancouver
35 –John Doe, Male, Shooting, Surrey
April
36 – Matthew Neely, Male, Unknown, Surrey
37 – John Doe, Sooke
38 – John Doe, Male, Other, Abbotsford
39 – Unknown Victim, Female, 18, Other
40 – Unknown Victim, Male, 33, Other
41 – Matthew MacFarlane, Male, 36, Stabbing, Vancouver
42 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Surrey
May
43 – Gurvikramjeet Singh Warring, Male, Shooting, Surrey
44 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Kamloops
45 – James Andrew Slater, Male, 49, Stabbing, Vancouver
46 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Surrey
47 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Surrey
48 – Stewart McLean, Lions Bay
49 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Langley
50 – Unknown Victim, Stabbing, Surrey
51 – Jane Doe, Mission
52 – Gaurav Deol, Male, 18, Shooting, Surrey
53 – Lord Kevin Ayson Olaer, Male, 28, Maple Ridge
54 – Johnny Sudds, Male, Other, Vancouver
June
55 – John Doe, X̱wemelch’stn
56 – Mirac Kutbay, Male, 30s, Other, Saanich
57 – Jane Doe, Kelowna
58 – Julian Wich, Male, 29, Prince George (Remains Located)
July
59 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Salmon Arm
60 – Larry John Isaac, Male, Creston
61 – John Doe, Male, 27, Nanaimo
62 – Larry Greig, Male, 75, Langley
August
63 – Jane Doe, Female, Other, Delta
64 – John Doe, Male, Shooting, Maple Ridge
65 – Chang Yong Cho, Male, 85, Shooting, Burnaby
66 – Jane Doe, Female, 54, Vernon
September
67 – John Doe, Male, 77, Fort St. James
68 – John Doe, Male, Unknown, Vancouver