List of homicides in Michigan

This is a list of homicides in Michigan. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Michigan that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows: Multiple homicides - homicides having multiple victims, including incidents involving race riots, mass killings involving organized crime, familicides, a school bombing, a school shooting, a post office shooting, and spree killers. Serial killers - persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them Single homicides - notable homicides involving a single fatality

Multiple homicides Listed in chronological order Incident Location Date Deaths Description SourcesMorris murdersDecatur18792Unsolved murders of Charles Henry Morris and Esther Jones MorrisSeeberville MurdersSeeberville1913-08-142Shooting deaths of two striking miners during the Copper Country strike of 1913–1914Bath school disasterBath Township1927-05-1844Violent attacks by Andrew Kehoe, including detonation of explosives at school buildingMilaflores MassacreDetroit19273Shooting of three gangsters, suspected of having been perpetrated to The Purple GangCollingwood Manor MassacreDetroit1931-09-163Gang hit on three Chicago gunmen by members of The Purple GangFord Hunger MarchDearborn19325Confrontation between unemployed auto workers and Dearborn police and Ford security, five workers shot to death, more than 60 injured1943 Detroit race riotDetroit1943-0634Riots among black and white residents, 34 killed, 433 woundedTroy axe murdersTroy1964-09-287Murder of seven by father after release from mental hospital1967 Detroit riotDetroit1967-07-23-2843Race riot in which 43 people were killedAlgiers Motel incidentDetroit1967-07-25/263Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film DetroitRobison family murdersGood Hart1968-06-256Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottageHazelwood massacreDetroit1971-06-148Execution-style hit killing at house in DetroitDonald GoinesHighland Park1974-10-212Author of urban fiction murdered with his common-law wife in their apartmentAnn Arbor Hospital murdersAnn Arbor197510Murders of 10 patients by intravenous administration of curare drug at VA hospital by nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez.Livernois–Fenkell riotDetroit1975-08-012Bar owner shot black teenager. Mob beat to death dishwasher who was Nazi concentration camp survivorRock Road massacreFarwell1982-02-167Murder of seven members of the Post family by former Army sharpshooterJeffrey GortonRomulusFlint1991-02-171986-11-092Convicted of rape and murder of a flight attendant and professor at UM-FlintGwendolyn Graham and Cathy WoodWalker19875Nurses aides who killed five elderly women at Alpine Manor nursing homesMurder of the DeLisle childrenWyandotte1989-08-034Father killed his four children (ages 10 months to 8 years) by driving station wagon into the Detroit RiverRoyal Oak post office shootingsRoyal Oak1991-11-145Former employee opened fire at the Royal Oak Post Office, killing four employees, then himself1997 Detroit shootingsDetroit1997-03-114A gunman opened fire at a Comerica branch bank, killing two employees and one customer. He was then killed by policeMarvin GabrionCedar Springs19971–5Convicted murderer, suspected serial killerJack KevorkianWaterford Township1998-09-171+Pathologist and euthanasia proponent convicted of second-degree murder for administering lethal injection of potassium chloride to Thomas YoukSeth PrivackyMuskegon1998-11-295At age 18, killed his parents, brother, brother's girlfriend and grandfather2011 Grand Rapids shootingsGrand Rapids2011-07-078Spree killingMurders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob KudlaDetroit2012-072Two white teenagers tortured and murdered in Detroit by two black males2016 Kalamazoo shootingsKalamazoo2016-02-206Shootings at an apartment complex, car dealership and restaurantSt. Joseph courthouse shootingSt. Joseph2016-07-113Shooting by inmate at Berrien County Courthouse, killing two bailiffs and himselfCentral Michigan University shootingMount Pleasant2018-03-02219-year-old student James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed parents when they arrived to take him home for spring break2021 Oxford High School shootingOxford2021-11-304School shooting perpetrated by sophomore Ethan Crumbley2023 Michigan State University shootingEast Lansing2023-02-133Mass shooting at Michigan State2025 Grand Blanc Township church attackGrand Blanc20254Mass shooting and arson attack on Mormon meeting houseKarolkiewicz family murdersGrand Haven Charter Township20267Familicide committed by Kristopher Karolkiewicz.

Serial killers Listed in chronological order by date of earliest homicide Incident Location Date Deaths Description SourcesRaymond Fernandez and Martha BeckGrand Rapids19493–17Serial killer couple targeting widows and "lonely hearts"John Rodney McRaeSt. Clair Shores1950–19872–5+Serial killer convicted of murdering two boys and prime suspect in three othersRoland E. ClarkMultiple1954–19672Medical doctor convicted of two counts of manslaughterHenry Lee LucasMichigan and Texas1960–19833 confirmed, claimed over 250Serial killer who claimed to have killed over 250 persons Rudy BladelMultiple1963–19783–7Serial killer responsible for murders of seven railway employees, convicted of three of themLarry and Danny RanesKalamazoo19641–5Serial killersMichigan MurdersAnn Arbor and Ypsilanti1967–19697 +Murders of female college students by serial killer John Norman Collins, aka the Co-Ed Killer and the Ypsilanti Ripper, in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti areaCarl Eugene WattsMichigan and Texas1974–198214–100+Serial killer known as "The Sunday Morning Slasher"Bigfoot KillerDetroit19757Serial killer who raped and murdered seven girls and women between February and October 1975Anthony Guy WalkerLenawee County1975–19866+Serial killer responsible for at least six murders Oakland County Child KillerOakland County1976–19774+Serial killings of childrenDonald Gene MillerEast Lansing1977–19784Serial killer known as "The East Lansing Serial Killer"Donald MurphyDetroit1979–19802–6+Serial killer convicted of murdering two women, confessed to killing at least sixMichael Darnell HarrisVarious1981–19824–10Serial killer and rapistRichard ClareyNew Buffalo1984-04-153+German-American serial killer and Neo-Nazi sympathizerBenjamin AtkinsDetroit1991–199211Serial killer and rapist known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer" who murdered 11 womenLeslie Allen WilliamsOakland and Genesee Counties1991–19924Serial killer, rapist and necrophile convicted in the deaths of four teenage girlsJohn Eric ArmstrongDetroit1992–19995–11+Serial killer convicted of killing five sex workers in DetroitShelly BrooksDetroit2001–20067–20+Serial killer murdered at least seven womenElias AbuelazamGenesee County20101–5Israeli suspected of 18 stabbings resulting in five deaths, convicted of one deathDeangelo MartinDetroit2018–20194Serial killer convicted of murdering four women and raping two othersKenyel BrownWayne County2019–20206Serial killer who committed suicide prior to trial

Single homicides