11 dead in 17 days
A spate of killings has left 11 people dead in 17 days, authorities said, the city’s most violent streak in more than a year.
Since Sept. 15, the slayings have occurred with alarming precision, many of them just hours apart. Men and women, including several older than 50, have been found shot, stabbed and strangled. Most recently, Maria Elizabeth Campos, 42, was discovered early Tuesday inside her burning apartment, her throat slit.
The recent rash of slayings brought this year’s homicide count to 102, just 17 fewer than the number recorded in 2006, putting the city on pace to surpass last year’s total, the highest number in more than a decade.
I wish I had some brilliant commentary to go with this. I don’t. I had just last night been thinking that I can’t turn on the tv without finding out that someone had been killed and it was disheartening. I am glad to see that this is an anomaly.
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