homicides

Black people account for 60% of all firearm homicides yet make up 14% of the population. In the 18-to-24 age group, Black people had a firearm mortality rate of 58.78 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.1 per 100,000 for White people.

MEXICO CITY — Three film students in southwest Mexico go out to film a homework assignment; they are kidnapped and killed, their bodies dissolved in acid.

In 2007, prior to the so-called war on drugs, there were 2,828 executions by organized crime. Now the number is 18,017. All crime has increased. [...]

This New Year’s Eve, 750 heavy wooden crosses were distributed to a gathering of Chicagoans commemorating the victims of gun violence killed in 2016. Rev. Michael Pfleger and the Faith Community of St. Sabina Parish had issued a call to carry crosses constructed by Greg Zanis. The crosses, uniform in size, presented the name and age and, in many cases, a facial photo of the person killed. Some who carried the crosses were relatives of the people killed. As the group assembled, several sobbed upon finding the crosses that bore the names and photos of their loved ones.