Map shows areas with the most homicides in Charlotte in 2019

Charlotte’s deadly year ended with 107 homicides — the most in more than two decades.

More than 80 percent of the homicide victims in 2019 were killed by gunfire, including three on Catherine Simmons Avenue, a mile-long street in Lincoln Heights. A fourth person was shot and killed just blocks away.

Eighty-five homicide victims were male. Eighty-four were black, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police data.

CMPD also reported a higher rate so far this year of other violent crimes. Homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults have increased through September this year compared to that period last year, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police statistics.

This story was originally published February 25, 2019 at 10:53 AM.

Gavin Off

The Charlotte Observer

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Gavin Off was previously the Charlotte Observer’s data reporter, since 2011. He also worked as a data reporter at the Tulsa World and at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His journalism, including his data analysis and reporting for the investigative series Big Poultry, won multiple national journalism awards.