Heads up: (2)007, license to kill
If you’re gonna break 2006’s homicide count, you’ll need an early start. No more than two hours into the new year, Wyteria Rogers, 20, was shot to death in her car. Monday afternoon, a second victim, a man in his mid-30s, was also shot to death in his car.
For the record, 2006 ended with 109 murders, with Francisco Ostiquin Cervantes, 32, not found until Monday but killed over the weekend. Forty of those cases are unsolved. (Full list.) Our new new resolution: Buy bulletproof vests and windshields.
• Birmingham News: Police investigate three homicides
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007, 9:49 pm
Yikes! That’s higher than my city’s rate: http://tinyurl.com/txqtw
85 in San Francisco for 2006.
I wonder what Chicago’s was? *searches* YIKES! 452!
Hm.
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 5:29 am
cbs2chicago.com - Homicide Rate Rises By 4 Percent: Chicago topped out at 466, and police say half are gang related. “That is compared to 447 homicides in 2005, which was a 40-year low for Chicago.”
That’s impressive. San Francisco’s total dropped by 11 percent from 2005 (which was the highest in a decade).
Meanwhile, Birmingham’s homicide total went up 3.8 percent. Ugh.
Friday, January 19, 2007, 8:45 pm
Sadly, San Francisco had 14 murders in the first 16 days of the year for 2007. NOT a good start.
Great news on Chicago really. Not too bad for a metro are of nearly 10 million folks.