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• Source: Tulsa World
• Date: July 13, 2008
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• Bylines: Curtis Killman , Nicole Marshall
• Topics: Crime , Death
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: By examining police, state Medical Examiner’s Office and state Health Department records, the Tulsa World reviewed homicides during the last 10 years: 1998 through 2007. The analysis showed that 507 people were slain in Tulsa during that time. The city averaged 41 killings per year between 1998 and 2002 and 60 per year between 2003 and 2007, records show. The youngest victim was an unborn child who died when her mother was repeatedly stabbed during a domestic attack; the oldest, a 96-year-old woman who was shot to death in a murdersuicide at a Tulsa cemetery. A look back over the decade shows Tulsa’s sporadic pace of homicides, which police say is one reason killings are hard to predict and prevent. In 2002, for example, the city saw 35 homicides, but the next year the total nearly doubled. Sixty-nine people - the largest number in Tulsa’s recorded history - were killed that year.
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