homicide

A supporting document to the bill describes domestic homicide as "a gendered crime that is overwhelming committed by men against women".

Lee Smith, 37, was jailed for eight years last December after admitting culpable homicide.

Everytown gathered a focus group of 43 survivors of this type of violence last year, and participants reported that children were witnesses in 43 percent of domestic-violence homicide suicides.

Senate Bill 323 is the second bill introduced in the state legislature this year that would classify a fetus as a human being from fertilization, effectively categorizing abortion as homicide.

In reality, the limited data on mass shootings and homicide assailants’ gender identities suggests that “trans people make up an insignificant percentage” of perpetrators, Lenning said.