Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is the 185th day of the year, just a couple of days past the midway point of the year. Prior to today, the Lexington 2021 Homicide Investigation page lists 20 murders in the city so far this year. However, it omits the murder of Demonte Washington, 28, reported on May 22th in the Herald-Leader. My attempts to get to someone who has the information on Mr Washington’s omission from the list — it could have been rules a suicide or justifiable homicide — have thus far been fruitless.
Two people killed in overnight shooting outside Lexington apartment building
By Morgan Eads | July 4, 2021 | 10:13 AM EDT
A man and a woman died early Sunday morning after a shooting in the parking lot of an apartment building on Danielle Lane in Lexington.
Shaquille Louis Newby, 27, died at the scene of the shooting and Tyler Malahn Sandusky, 26, was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital where she died of her injuries, according to the Fayette County Coroner’s Office.
The shooting happened around 1:20 a.m. Sunday, and when police arrived they found one victim on the ground and the other in a nearby vehicle, according to WKYT, the Herald-Leader’s reporting partner.
Mr Newby and Miss Sandusky are thus either the 21st and 22nd, or 22nd and 23rd homicide victims in the city this year. Assuming the former, Lexington is seeing 0.1189 homicides per day, on pace for 43 for the year, or, assuming the latter, 0.1243 per day, on pace for 45 murders.
In 2020, Lexington set its previous record of 34 homicides, which had beaten out the previous record of 30, set in 2019. Good thing the city decided to take another tool out of the hands of law enforcement, huh?
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