(CNSNews.com) - There were 100 people murdered in New York City in the first 99 days of 2023, according to data published by the New York Police Department.
The NYPD’s “CompStat” report for the week that ran from April 3 through April 9, indicates that there were 7 murders in New York City that week, 30 murders in the last 28 days and 100 from the beginning of 2023 through April 9. (April 9 was the 99th day of the year.)
The 100 murders committed in New York City through April 9 of this year is down from the 111 that were committed in the city through April 9 of last year.
In addition to the 100 murders committed in New York City through April 9 of this year, the NYPD reports that in that same period there were 408 crime complaints for alleged rapes, 4,102 for alleged robberies, and 6,742 for alleged felony assaults.
In the same period in 2022, there were 441 complaints alleged rapes, 4,251 for alleged robberies, and 6,216 for alleged felony assaults.
Through all of 2022, according to the NYPD, there were 438 murders in New York City—or an average of one every 20 hours.
The victim of the last publicly reported homicide in New York City in the week that ended on Sunday, April 9, was an 83-year-old man. The Daily News published a story online that day about this homicide. It carried this headline: “Brooklyn man, 83, just released from hospital for pacemaker when stabbed dead in an elevator by a young neighbor on spree: ‘Kill someone your own age!’”