Yeah, I remember those murders in Detroit back in January (and other months). I know someone's mother who works at one of the Metro Detroit hospitals, and that's when I learned the truth about the murder rate in Detroit. Most of the people who get shot or stabbed die in the hospital, and something (according to my friend) about them dying in the hospital makes it so their death doesn't get counted as a murder. In fact it got so bad in Detroit that they ran out of room in the morgue and had to start piling bodies up for a while. They say Chicago was the murder capital of the United States last year, but I beg to differ.
There was one case back in March (?) when some guy killed his wife/GF and three children and set the house on fire, then the same day there were other ppl shot in robberies on the same road (6-Mile). The final count was 12 dead in 9 hours, I believe. This was all down the street from the university I was attending, too. God, I am glad I'll be going to GVSU in the fall!