Milwaukee homicide total to 64 for year, up 19% due to BLACK VIOLENCE

Cities call it GUN VIOLENCE or GANG VIOLENCE - It is NOT either one!

It is BLACK VIOLENCE! Across America in every urban city blacks are shooting and killing at an alarming rate.

Homicides in Milwaukee are up nearly 19% in 2013 compared with the same period last year, with the killing over the weekend of a teenager bringing the city's total to 64.

Milwaukee police released more information Monday about three separate weekend shootings that left three people dead, including the 16-year-old boy, Keenan Payne.

Payne was shot to death in the 7600 block of W. Mill Road about 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Investigators believe the shooting was the result of an earlier dispute between the gunman and the victim, said Lt. Mark Stanmeyer, police spokesman. No arrests have been made in the case.

Police arrested two people in connection with the killing on Saturday of Alexis N. Taylor, 27, and the wounding of her boyfriend, 34, who is expected to recover from his injuries, Stanmeyer said. That shooting occurred in the 5200 block of N. 91st St. and is believed to be related to drugs.

Officials have not released the name of a 33-year-old man shot to death late Saturday in the 1200 block of E. Kane Place pending notification of family. That homicide also is believed to be drug-related, Stanmeyer said.

The Milwaukee County district attorney's office declined to issue charges in a homicide that occurred last week. Quentin Blackmer was fatally stabbed during a quarrel Aug. 20, and his 30-year-old girlfriend was taken into custody. Homicides determined to be self-defense are not counted in FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which are used for comparison purposes.

Milwaukee's 64 homicides for 2013 through Monday compares with 54 by the same time last year.

Last year, the city recorded 92 homicides, a 6% increase from 2011. In the last eight years, the lowest number of homicides — 71 — was recorded in 2008, and the highest number — 122 — was recorded in 2005.

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