CLEVELAND, Ohio - At least 41 Cuyahoga County residents from 18 towns died from gunshots during the first four months of 2014 - 24 by homicide and 17 by suicide, the county medical examiner has ruled.

Update: See year-end summary, statistics, details for Cuyahoga County shooting death for all of 2014.

Nearly half the deaths - 20 - were Cleveland residents monthly, but the fatalities stretched from Euclid and Pepper Pike on the eastern side of the county to Strongsville and North Olmsted on the west.

They ranged in age from 5 to 97.

One suicide, by a Beachwood woman, was committed in a wooded area of Geauga County. Otherwise, the rest of the fatal shootings occurred in Cuyahoga County.

Most of the suburban deaths - 57 percent - were ruled suicides. Among Clevelanders, 75 percent were ruled homicides.

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The Editorial Board believes gun-related violence is a public health crisis.

This database and map of gunshot deaths will be updated monthly throughout 2014. There may be other deaths the medical examiner had not ruled on by the end of April.

Click on the map or listing below to learn more about each case. The Northeast Ohio Media Group does not generally publish the names of those who have committed suicide, unless there are special circumstances, such as a murder/suicide.

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Source: Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner