Inside Baltimore?s murder rate

Published September 3, 2007 4:00am ET



AUGUST HOMICIDE VICTIMS

» Aug. 1: Eghosa Miaes, 20, shooting

» Aug. 2: Carl Barnes, 35, shooting

» Aug. 2: William Johnson, 18, shooting

» Aug. 2: Keenan McCargo, 28, shooting

» Aug. 3: Donte Bracey, 20, shooting

» Aug. 5: Eric Ford, 19, shooting

» Aug. 6: Lorado Williams, 27, shooting

» Aug. 7: Taavon Mitchell, 27, shooting

» Aug. 8: Joseph Bryant, 29, shooting *

» Aug. 11: Davon McCargo, 20, shooting

» Aug. 12: Byron Dickey, 28, shooting

» Aug. 16: Karen Kutchey, 51, stabbing

» Aug. 18: Ramona Bradley, 40, blunt force trauma *

» Aug. 19: Darius Cox, 17, shooting

» Aug. 23: Ishmael Cooper, 15, shooting

» Aug. 25: Dwight Baker, 35, shooting

» Aug. 26: Andre McNair, 28, shooting

» Aug. 26: Matthew Sivells, 26, shooting

» Aug. 27: Himank Karki, 18, shooting

» Aug. 28: Unidentified man, shooting

» Aug. 30: Unidentified man, shooting

» Aug. 30: Unidentified man, shooting

» Aug. 31: Unidentified man, shooting

* Resulted in arrest

MURDER BY THE NUMBERS

» August homicides: 23

» August homicides closed: 2

» 2007 homicides: 210

» 2007 homicides closed: 70

» If the pace keeps up: 315 homicides by year?s end

» Homicide comparisons: Boston (559,000 population), 47 homicides; Newark, N.J. (274,000), 66; Washington D.C. (551,000),126; Philadelphia (1.5 million), 285; New York (8.1 million), 311

» Homicides per 100,000 residents: Baltimore, 33; Newark, 24; Washington, 23; Philadelphia, 19; Boston, 8; New York, 4

SUSPECTS FACING TRIAL FOR AUGUST HOMICIDES

» Dwayne Erving, 17, of Baltimore, was arrested Aug. 8, the same day he allegedly shot Joseph Bryant to death in the 2300 block of East Oliver Street.

» Sandra Milton, 46, of Cumberland, was charged Aug. 27 with the Aug. 18 beating death of Ramona Bradley in the 1100 block of Harper Way.