Apr. 6âThere were 14 shootings in York City during the first quarter of 2021, a record-breaking number that Police Commissioner Michael Muldrow partially attributed to the spread of crime throughout the city.
Muldrow detailed the recent uptick in shootings during a public forum in front of about 50 city residents Monday evening at Stillmeadow Church of the Nazarene s York City campus.
The number of shootings between Jan. 1 and March 31 marked a 75% increase over the same time period last year.
For the five years for which data is available, the former record number of shootings in the first three months of a year was nine, which occurred in 2018.
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