Six murders in Philadelphia first day of the year

[Al B. Sure!]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20120101_ap_phillyseesbloodyyearsendandstart6dead.html?cmpid=124488429

PHILADELPHIA - Police in Philadelphia report a bloody end to the old year and the start of a new one with six people killed and others injured around the City of Brotherly Love.

Police said shortly before midnight, a 36-year-old man and 31-year-old woman were found shot to death in a car north of the center of the city.

A few hours later, a 23-year-old man was found nearby with a gunshot wound and died at a hospital.

A few minutes after midnight, a 77-year-old man died after he was stabbed in a domestic dispute in south Philadelphia. A 52-year-old man was arrested.

In northeastern Philadelphia early Sunday, a 47-year-old man was shot to death.

A 26-year-old man died Saturday afternoon after he was shot six to nine times in north Philadelphia.

Ridiculous. How many murders today in your city?

[Aeson]

Given the murder rate here of 0.0 per 100,000 (with a population of less than 7000), I'm guessing it wasn't a lot...

[KrazyHorse]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/br...mpid=124488429



Ridiculous. How many murders today in your city?

Six less philadelphians

[giblets]

That's a drop in the bucket. At this pace they'll only have taken out ~2000 Philadelphians by the end of the year. They're going to breed faster than that.

[Hauldren Collider]

We can only hope that philly will bomb itself again, but be more thorough this time.

[giblets]

Hold on, I noticed the "six murders" involved seven deaths. Still a drop in the bucket however.

[Al B. Sure!]

Hold on, I noticed the "six murders" involved seven deaths. Still a drop in the bucket however.

Huh?

I count 6.


I should also note that article was posted 11:53 AM. So there were still 12 more hours to go. I don't know if there's been more murders. Probably will find out in the morning.

[KrazyHorse]

Hold on, I noticed the "six murders" involved seven deaths. Still a drop in the bucket however.

the last one occurred saturday afternoon, which was not the first day of the new year...

[Al B. Sure!]

Where are the seven deaths? It's a 36 year old man, 31 year old woman, 23 year old man, 77 year old man, a 47 year old man, and a 26 year old man. That's 6.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm guessing he counted the arrested suspect as dead

[KrazyHorse]

what I really like is the guy who was shot "six to nine times".

That is one lazy ****ing pathologist.

[KrazyHorse]

So technically there were five murders on the first day of the year. Philadelphians are both murderers and exaggerators

[Asher]

Zero, of course.

There were 11 all last year in Calgary (population ~1.1 million).
Philly has what, 1.4 million people?

There were 328 last year in Philly.

[Al B. Sure!]

So technically there were five murders on the first day of the year. Philadelphians are both murderers and exaggerators

5 as of 11:53 AM... as in this morning. There may have been more since.

[Wezil]

Stay classy Philly.