Black Men Six Times More Likely Homicide Victims, Seven Times More Likely to Kill

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D.

[From article]
He said black men were six times more like to die as a result of murder and seven times more likely to commit murder than their white counterparts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306968/Study-finds-homicide-leading-cause-death-young-black-men--suicide-accidents-disease-COMBINED.html

Homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men - more than suicide, accidents and disease COMBINED, finds study
Article entitled A New American Tragedy says most non-black men die in accidents
Its author Charles H Hennekens says young black men six times more likely to die as result of murder than their non-black counterparts
Dr Hennekens says nearly all such murders of young black men involve guns
His article published in the April issue of the American Journal Of Medicine
By HARRIET ARKELL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:03 EST, 10 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:31 EST, 10 April 2013