BRAMPTON - It has been a deadly year in Brampton so far as the city reached a record number of murders. There have been eight homicide deaths in Brampton so far, and the year isn’t over yet. That’s double Brampton’s total of four murders for all of 2007, and higher than the city’s average of five annually recorded in recent years. The previous highs were recorded in 2006 (7) and 2005 (6).
Add Mississauga to the mix, and together the two cities have also hit a region-wide record high this year of 18 murders with four months left to go.
So far this year there doesn’t appear to be any common theme shaping the killings in Brampton. They appear to be a mixed bag of motives and situations, from an apparent mob hit on an ex-convict at a local halfway house to the random knifing of a middle-aged couple in a plaza parking lot.
The murder weapons used have been split down the middle- four victims were stabbed to death while the other four were shot.
The killings have also been spread out over the year with one in January, two in each of February, April (a double murder), and June, and one in August.
In six of the eight, the victims were Brampton residents and they ranged in age from 16 to 53. Two of the murders in Mississauga this year have involved Brampton residents as well- one as a victim, the other as an accused.
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