Five weekend homicides in Oklahoma City add to year's growing count

BY JULIANA KEEPING NewsOK.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2012



OKLAHOMA CITY - Five dead at four weekend shootings in under 48 hours has added to Oklahoma City's climbing homicide count, which, at 66, already has eclipsed the number of slayings in each of the last two years.

“For Sept. 17, this is a high number,” Master Sgt. Gary Knight said on Monday.

It's not known what accounts for the spike. Police declined to speculate.

“It's hard to know what makes one year's homicide totals higher than another homicide totals,” said Knight, a police department spokesman.

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