59 Murders in 2007
Well, I ran across this morbid article yesterday:
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6574288
The good news is that we’re down 10 murders relative to this time in 2006, but the bad (and really scary) news is that there were 5 murders on this past Friday and Saturday alone. Pretty scary stuff.
Update 5/30/2007:
Just saw on the nightly local news that the murder count is now up to 62. One of the homicide detectives they interviewed said 8 were from this past weekend. One murder would have made it 63 when a pregnant mother was shot (woman is still alive, baby died), but because she was only 2 months pregnant they have to consider it an aggravated assault (baby wouldn’t have survived outside of the womb as the deciding factor). Sad sad sad…
