Center For Disease And Control Says Tennessee’s Homicide Rate One Of The Nation’s Highest

During the last reporting period in 2020, the State of Tennessee recorded 753 deaths classified as homicides and that’s one of the highest Homicide rates in the country. Tennessee ranks ahead of Virginia and below Mississippi which has the highest rate in the country. Tennessee’s most recent rate places it at 7th in the nation in terms of homicide putting them below South Carolina and above Maryland.