The number of homicides investigated by San Diego Police so far this year has surpassed the number of homicides all of 2015, according to statistics from SDPD Homicide Lieutenant Manny Del Toro.
SDPD officers have investigated 38 homicides in their jurisdiction so far this year, passing total number of homicides officers investigated in 2015: 37.
2016 has been a particularly violent and deadly year so far for San Diego, a city where homicide rates are usually among the lowest across the country’s largest cities, according to numbers released this summer by County officials.
A North County man who died Thursday after he was discovered with multiple stab wounds just north of the U.S- Mexico border marked the 38th homicide for SDPD officers.
The visuals from the first half of 2016 serve as a stark reminder of the violence.
A series of homeless men, attacked while sleeping in various locations throughout San Diego with railroad spikes.
The death of an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) five days after getting into a fight in San Diego's Gaslamp District.
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Signs dotting a downtown street reading “Justice for Shauna Haynes,” a bright 21-year-old whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase and thrown away.
Aerials of a luxurious Rancho Santa Fe residence where irrational fears of bankruptcy led to a double murder-suicide.
The homicide rate in the City of San Diego is relatively low compared to other major U.S. cities.
SDPD Homicide Captain Dave Nisleit previously told NBC 7 that the homicides are happening all over the map and without a stand-out motive that authorities could try to address.
