188 homicides in St. Louis in 2016, same as the year before
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Unofficial numbers are in, and 2016 was just as deadly as 2015 in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 188 homicide cases were reported in the city last year, the exact same as 2015. Â The 2015 total was 18 percent higher than the 159 killings in 2014. The record…