On April 7, the city had its 12th homicide of the year as a 30-year-old female was found dead in a home on SW 60th Street.
Few details were known in the following days. Was this a drug-related homicide? A domestic dispute? Or maybe a murder related to the citys increase in gang activity?
All that was known was it was another body in a city that has seen its murder count steadily rise over the past decade.
In 2006, Oklahoma Citys four-year homicide average was 49.2 a year. After last years 75 murders, the citys current four-year average is 73.5, a 149-percent increase.