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1.4 million people and 11 murders in the Boston 'Core'. Not too bad, up +3 from last year.
However, the Boston MSA has well over 25 murders this year with 7 murder suicide, murders. Notable increase.
On Friday two people were gunned down near a nightclub in our troubled Homewood neighborhood. Apparently the deceased female was an innocent bystander.
Yesterday a male was gunned down while riding his bicycle in our usually quiet Bloomfield neighborhood after some sort of argument with another male who was not on a bicycle. There's a lot of anti-cyclist/anti-bike lane rhetoric here, so I would not be surprised if this is yet another mentally-ill "law-abiding gun owner" who was "standing his ground" against the meanie cyclists.
Disrupting am otherwise pretty quiet couple of weeks in both the DMV and HR, a man has died in the hospital after he was found shot several times in his car in the Wythe area of Hampton today afternoon. That's 13 so far. Last year, Hampton reached this total by early May, after they had a bad spike similar to January this year with 6 murders in the month of April alone.
Also a domestic dispute ends with a 23 y/o woman dead in downtown Suffolk yesterday, but the suspect is being charged with voluntary manslaughter as of now; still marks homicide #2.
So far, surprisingly the only city in HR I can say is making a significant improvement is Norfolk; which is down 100% from last year (5 vs 15). Every other city in HR aside from Chesapeake is up substantially, which is a shame...Richmond also is up substantially after a rash of murders this month, shot up to 17 to tie Portsmouth as the state leader. Up 51%.
Oviously the raw differences are so minimal that they might not even matter later in the year, but still worth noting.
VB is up 66% (8 vs 4)
Suffolk is up 200% (2 vs 0)
Newport News is up 111% (7 vs 2)
Hampton is up 73% (13 vs 6)
Chesapeake is down 22% (4 vs 5)
Portsmouth is up 95% (17 vs 9)
Another notable mention which is an odd one, Charlottesville. I don't know what's going on over there, but having 5 already grants them the second highest rate in the state behind Portsmouth. It's like this small college town just traded places with Petersburg all of a sudden.
Your murder totals may be right, but the percentage changes are nearly all stated incorrectly. 8 vs. 4 is an increase of 100%, 2 vs. 0 is up indefinably, etc.
Your murder totals may be right, but the percentage changes are nearly all stated incorrectly. 8 vs. 4 is an increase of 100%, 2 vs. 0 is up indefinably, etc.
Yeah I was in a rush, threw it together in 3 mins and realized it was butchered days later. Don't mind it.
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