From Jimmie Gates of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, homicide numbers have soared the past two years, and based on cities with at least 100,000 population, Jackson’s per capita murder rate is the highest in the United States.
by Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today January 26, 2022 Hours after graduating from Murrah High School, Kennedy Hobbs visited the cemetery where her boyfriend was buried, placing her sash across his grave and snapping a picture for Instagram, writing, “For u baby.” Before the night ended, she would join him, becoming as he was a victim in Jackson’s record 155 homicides in 2021 — the highest per capita murder rate in the nation.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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