Gruesome Christmas Record for Capital
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<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital awoke Christmas morning to discover that the city record of killings had been broken for the fourth straight year.
Two fatal shootings Tuesday brought the 1991 murder count to 485, two more than the 483 recorded in all of 1990.
FBI statistics last year made Washington the nation’s homicide capital.
This year’s 484th homicide victim was found at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said, and another man was found fatally shot in the chest three hours later.
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