Homicide Rate

It’s been 10 months since Deaonte Dwayne Bell was killed in a shooting at the Nelson Park Apartments on Maryland Avenue on Columbus’ East Side. Three…

To little surprise, the opioid crisis and Columbus’ record number of homicides in 2017 were repeatedly referenced during Mayor Andrew Ginther’s first of…

Homicides in Cincinnati were up nearly 15 percent last year compared to 2016. But police officials told city council's Law and Public Safety Committee...

Columbus saw its deadliest year yet in 2017, with 143 homicides, a record that was last broken in the midst of the cocaine epidemic a quarter-century…

A disgruntled postal worker accused of fatally shooting his supervisor at a United States Post Office in Dublin, and then killing a postmaster outside her…

A Christmas Day death that police are now calling a homicide is considered to be Columbus' 140th of the year, breaking the previous record of 139 set in…

Columbus has tied its record for homicides in a single year after an overnight shooting became the 139th killing of 2017.Police say officers responded…

After a weekend with three more deaths from shootings, Columbus Division of Police Chief Kim Jacobs issued a "call to action and a call to peace" on…

Columbus Police say a teenager and a Hilltop resident were killed in a shooting in the west Columbus neighborhood on Monday.Police responding to a report…

At Stew's Barber Shop on Sullivant Avenue, Armando McKnight is giving a client a cut.“Right now, I'm giving him a line-up,” McKnight says. “This is like…