With three months remaining in 2022, Lexington has tied last year's homicide record of 37. A shooting Sunday morning came on the same day families remembered past homicide victims.
Councilmember James Brown said there's no simple answer to the violence epidemic but he said he didn't feel it was authentic to sit back during the work session and not say anything.
Dozens of eighth-graders at Lexington Traditional Magnet School went home with books and clothes for participating in One Lexington's "We are ONE" anti-violence poetry and essay contest.
Another record-setter; Lexington tops yearly homicide record
and last updated 2020-12-29 18:26:35-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Monday s shooting death on Woodhill Drive in Lexington brought the total number of homicide s the city has investigated in 2020 to 34. The number easily surpasses last year s total of 30.
For Andre Washington, one was too many, as her grandson Mykal Waide was killed by gunfire this August. We miss him. We miss him a lot, she said. Christmas Eve was really hard for me, she said of last week s holiday.
The 34 homicides only represent less than one-quarter of the total shooting the city has reported this year. That number was in the 130s as of December 7.