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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Toronto is having a very violent year. The second person to die in that shooting marks this city's 50th homicide at the midway point of the year. Given that homicides tend to spike in summertime, and we have about 2.5 months of hot weather ahead of us, I wouldn't be surprised if we top 100 murders by the end of 2018. I'm pretty sure this would be a new record.
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The current record is 89 and was set in 1991 (when the city had 2.3 million people). It's possible that 2018 will surpass that number, though I don't think the next half of the year will necessarily mirror the violence of the last half - keeping in mind that the current total of 50 includes the 10 people killed in the van attack, as well as the 8 victims of Bruce McArthur discovered this year (even though they were presumably murdered in previous years).
Take those two incidences away and it'd be a slightly above-average year.
Side note: I hadn't realized until now that one of the victims of last night's shooting was up-and-coming local rapper Smoke Dawg.