Lake City Pennsylvania

Lake City, Pennsylvania has recorded 21 homicides over the tracked period, with 23 victims identified. Tracking continues through 2026. The city ranks #198 among 339 U.S. cities tracked by the FBI, with a clearance rate of 14% — meaning an arrest or suspect identification was made in 3 of those incidents, while 13 remain open. The weapon mix skews toward firearm - handguns (roughly 48% of cases with weapon data), with unknown as the next-most-frequent categories. Reporting is dominated by Lake City Police Department, which filed 21 incident reports. The annual homicide count runs 77% below the per-city average for the FBI's tracking universe. Pennsylvania's statewide firearms policy — a permit-to-purchase handgun requirement in major cities — is part of the regulatory backdrop for the local dynamic, even as the city-level pattern is shaped most directly by community-level conditions and the broader opioid and fentanyl crisis. For broader statewide context, see our Pennsylvania state homicide data page. The Murder Channel's Pennsylvania coverage provides ongoing context for this city's homicide patterns as new FBI UCR reports are released.