How to Use homicide in a Sentence

homicide

noun

• The number of homicides increased last year.
• He has been arrested for homicide.
• Burnett’s death marks the 27th homicide in Pine Bluff this year and first in 38 days.
  — I.c. Murrell, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• Most of the homicide victims died in shootings both years.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• The pace of homicides in Portland in 2023 now matches that of last year at this same point.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 5 July 2023
• The list will be updated throughout the year, with the most recent homicides at the top.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2024
• His lawyers have said their client wasn't in the home where the homicides occurred and was driving around alone that night.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The Penn-North site went a without a single homicide for the calendar year.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• See the table below to learn who was killed so far in 2024, where the homicide happened and whether arrests were made.
  — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• In each of the two years after New Mexico’s red flag law took effect in 2020, the city logged a new homicide record.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 10 July 2023
• The slaying comes as the city continues to grapple with crime, with 19 homicides so far in August, 16 of which occurred in the first six days of the month.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Police were not able to determine which of the two teens fired the fatal shot, but brought first-degree homicide charges against both of them.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
• Cleveland could surpass 192 total homicides, the most in years.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• Memphis in November broke its record for homicides in a year.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Of those deaths, nearly three-quarters were by suicide and just over a quarter were homicides.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• Salazar said the first inclination is to assume a homicide.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 July 2023
• The city sees only a few dozen homicides each year, compared to several hundred in New York.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 3 June 2023
• Police data shows homicides in both cities have fallen compared with the same time last year.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Rouse has said that Norton’s death is the only unsolved homicide in Kotzebue.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2024
• Steve Cercone: At this time, there was no question that the parents were the suspects in the possible homicide of a little girl from 1981.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Justin Mohn legally purchased his firearm on Monday, the day before the homicide, according to Schorn.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The total is more than three times the number of homicides committed the same year and also three times the number of car crash fatalities.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2024
• The mother's name has not been released and police were investigating the fire as a homicide, Young said.
  — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The cause of the death for the boy, who according to authorities suffered from disabilities, was ruled a homicide.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• The medical examiner ruled that Cayley had died from blunt force face and head trauma; it was ruled a homicide.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Detroit reports its fewest number of homicides since 1966.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2024
• The deadly shooting stemmed from a confrontation two weeks before the homicide when White got into an argument with a group of people the victim was with at the time.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2024
• Firearms were the most common weapon for violent crimes, with 80.3% of homicide and manslaughter charges being carried out with guns.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2023
• Local, state and federal agencies were involved in the manhunt for Burham, a homicide suspect.
  — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
• In the arrest report, police reportedly broke down lyrics from the song that apparently lined up the details of the homicide.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024