There were 41 homicides in Columbus last year. Our map shows where they happened.
The 41 homicides Columbus recorded in 2019 were widely spread across the city, with a few exceptions:
The north side of the city had only two, around Miller Road north of the Manchester Expressway. Both were related to family violence. Oakland Park, off South Lumpkin Road south of Victory Drive, also had two. Downtown had none.
The areas most affected were the south, east, and central parts of town, with the heaviest concentration roughly tracking Cusseta Road from where it splits off from North Lumpkin Road to around Interstate 185.
Fourteen of the 41 deaths were in that area, with four from a single incident in which a man stabbed to death his girlfriend and three young children at Elizabeth Canty Homes. Three were on Mellon Street, with two of those men killed in a single shooting and the third a woman found beaten to death.
East Columbus, in the area of Forrest Road west of Schatulga Road, had six, and so did a swath along Veterans Parkway south of 35th Street, encompassing the Wilson Homes public housing complex and the neighborhoods around Rose Hill.
Four were in midtown, around Lawyers Lane, and four more closer to the Carver Heights area off Rigdon Road south of Macon Road.
The victims’ ages ranged from 70 to a month old. Thirty-two were males and nine were females. Thirty-two died from gunfire. Six were stabbed. Two were beaten.
Eleven of the deaths were related to family violence, and evidence indicated at least seven occurred during robberies, some of those involving drugs.
Columbus over the past five years has averaged 30 homicides annually, experiencing an abrupt increase from 28 in 2016 to 43 in 2017, the most recent peak. It had 34 homicides in 2018, according to Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan.
Here’s an interactive map illustrating the locations. Yellow pins indicate a stabbing-related death, red a gunshot-related death and blue includes all other deaths. Click on a pin to view more information about the homicide.