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Six people have been killed after 17 shootings throughout Pittsburgh since April 3, part of a surge of violent crime in the city this year, officials said Monday.
As of Monday, police have investigated 20 homicides and nearly 50 non-fatal shootings in 2021, according to numbers provided by the city’s Department of Public Safety.
The statistics represent an 80% increase in homicides and a 90% increase in shootings when compared to the same time frame in 2020.
It’s part of a national surge in violence, but “this is not Pittsburgh,” police Chief Scott Schubert said in a statement. Police responded to three shootings Sunday night and Monday morning that left one man dead and four others injured.