Homicides in Annapolis hit a record high

The city of Annapolis recorded its seventh homicide this week, making 2006 the deadliest year on record in Maryland?s capital, city police said.

Sheku Magba Komora, 23, died of gunshot wounds to the chest and upper torso that he suffered two weeks ago when he was shot on the 900 block of Royal Street in Annapolis. Komora?s death increased the city?s murder total to seven, compared with five recorded homicides in 2005 and three in 2004. Annapolis had recorded as few as one murder in prior years.