Fatality: The death of any person resulting from an incident determined to be an act of, or in the context of domestic violence or intimate partner abuse.
Murder: The death of one person resulting from the deliberate actions of another person in the context of an intimate partner relationship.
Murder/Suicide: An event resulting in the death of a person from the deliberate actions of another person who subsequently takes their own life, in the context of a current or former intimate partner relationship
Suicide: The death of a person who takes their own life in the context of intimate partner abuse/domestic violence (ex., abusive partner takes their own life in front of non-abusive partner during an argument or with the intention of the non-abusive partner discovering them. This could also include cases where a victim takes their own life to escape abuse.)
Collateral Death: The death of a person, other than the person with whom the perpetrator was involved in an intimate relationship, which occurred in the context of domestic violence.
Near Death: An injury to a person at the hands of an intimate partner whereby that injury could likely result in the death of that person. A near-death case could also include any of the other types of fatalities listed above (ex., attempted murder/suicide or attempted murder/collateral death).