Title: Study finds that homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men - more than suicide, accidents and disease COMBINED | Daily Mail Online
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Homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men - more than suicide, accidents and disease COMBINED, finds study
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Study finds that homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men - more than suicide, accidents and disease COMBINED

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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
Published: 12:03 EDT, 10 April 2013 | Updated: 12:31 EDT, 10 April 2013
More young black men die as a result of murder than those killed as a result of suicide, accidents and disease put together, a shocking new article has claimed. The report, by a professor at Florida Atlantic University, showed that murder was 'by far and away' the leading cause of death among young black men. By contrast, the article, published in the April issue of the American Journal of Medicine, revealed, young, non-black men of all ethnicities were also 'by far and away' most likely to die in accidents. A shocking article by Florida Atlantic University physician Charles H Hennekens says the vast majority of young black American men who die do so because of murder
Charles H Hennekens, the report's author, called the findings - and his article - 'the new American tragedy', and described the death of so many young black men by murder as 'a devastating epidemic'. 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. Dr Hennekens also provided the shocking statistic that while only one-eighth of the American population was black, half of the country's homicide victims are black, giving them a reduced life expectancy of more than six years. Student 'who knifed 15 people' in Lone Star campus stabbings... Drug arrest, growing up without electricity or water and a...
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Citing figures covering the deaths of young men aged 15-34 between 1999 and 2009, the physician said there were 106,271 homicides, 85% (89,887) of them among men and 49% (52,265) of them among black men. Even in states with relatively low levels of young black men being murdered, the figure still soared above that of those killed in accidents.