Intimate partner homicides in Bexar County, 2024 and 2025

Bexar County in 2024 and 2025

Each year the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) documents every Texan it can confirm was killed by a current or former intimate partner, or by someone stalking them. It counted 13 such homicides in Bexar County in 2025, 11 of them women and 2 men, and 17 in 2024, when Bexar County was tied with Dallas County for the second highest count in the state.

Large counties have more homicides because more people live in them, so the chart below divides each county’s two-year total by its population. Among Texas’s 10 most populous counties, only Harris (7.3) and Dallas (7.1) had a higher rate than Bexar County (7.0 per million residents a year), and the three are close. The rate for Texas as a whole was 5.1.

Across Texas

TCFV counted 160 intimate partner homicides in Texas in 2025, in 45 counties: 136 women and 24 men. In 2024 it counted 161, in 42 counties: 137 women and 24 men.

Help exists, but it is stretched. In state fiscal year 2025, Texas family violence programs served 65,920 people and gave shelter to 22,444, and crisis lines answered 260,196 calls. TCFV reports that 50.9% of survivors were turned away from shelter because there was no space. If a shelter is full, hotline advocates can still help you plan and look for other options.

What this means if you are worried about safety

• You do not need to be sure it is “abuse” to call. The National Domestic Violence Hotline talks with people who are unsure, scared, or just want to think out loud. It is free and confidential: 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
• Safety planning is something advocates do every day. They can help you think through times that may be riskier, such as leaving or ending a relationship, and connect you with local programs for shelter, legal help and protective orders.
• You can call for someone else. If you are worried about a friend, a daughter or son, a parent or a coworker, the hotline can help you work out how to support them.
• Therapy is not a safety plan. Counseling can help in time, but if you are in danger now, call 911 or the hotline first.

Method and limits

The counts come from TCFV’s Honoring Texas Victims reports for 2024 and 2025. TCFV includes a death when the victim and the person who killed them were in a current or former intimate relationship of any length, or the victim was killed by someone stalking them, and when that person was criminally charged or the case was ruled a murder-suicide. TCFV identifies cases from Texas Department of Public Safety crime data, law enforcement and prosecutors, news reports and local partners. Its own notes say no single source finds every case, some agencies did not respond to its requests, and charges can change after a report is published, so the true number may be higher.

These are small numbers. A difference of a few homicides from one year to the next, or between two similar counties, is not evidence of a trend, which is why the rates above combine two years. Rates are our calculation: each county’s 2024 and 2025 homicides divided by the sum of its 2024 and 2025 populations from the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimates. Bexar County’s count of 17 for 2024 is the same in TCFV’s county table, in the text of its report and in its case-by-case section.

The TCFV reports remember each person by name. This page uses county totals only and does not repeat any individual case.

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