Homicides surged about 40 percent last year in the nation's capital while nearby Baltimore continued to notch almost one killing per day — defying the downward trend in other big U.S. cities. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPDespite that, the city also saw its share of heartbreaking, seemingly random deaths. In 2011, there were 211 homicides in Baltimore; by last year, that number had risen to 307. “It’s an open market, open season for killing,” Daphne Alston, whose son Tariq was murdered in 2008, told the publication. “We’ve got a really, really talented homicide unit, but we’re understaffed.”In Baltimore, each detective is responsible for about nine homicide cases in addition to other "suspicious death" cases.

Source: Fox News January 01, 2019 13:31 UTC