For second year in a row, Denver homicides and shootings on pace to meet levels of bloodshed not seen in decades

On average, a person was shot in Denver every 36 hours in the first six months of 2021

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Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
Community members hold their fists in the air during a Park Hill community healing vigil in response to recent shooting and killings of young black men in the neighborhood in Denver on July 27, 2020. The vigil was held in the Park Hill Center or “The Holly” as it is known in the neighborhood. “Our gun violence has got to stop,” said Sherri Landrum. Landrum has lost several members of her family to gun violence, including her son in 2004 and her husband in 2013. Denver is on track to surpass the 95 homicides recorded in 2020.
By Elise Schmelzer | eschmelzer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
July 5, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

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Elise Schmelzer

Elise Schmelzer is the public safety reporter at The Denver Post and covers police, crime and criminal justice. She previously wrote for the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, the Washington Post and the Colorado Springs Gazette. She studied journalism and Spanish literature at the University of Missouri. When she's not writing, she disappears into the mountains to hike and fish.