RICHMOND, Ind. - The city of Richmond is experiencing its bloodiest year in a decade, with six murders recorded so far this year and the most since six people were murdered during all of 2002.
In fact, the past 18 months rank as the city's most murder-filled period in more than 30 years in the eastern Indiana city of 37,000 residents.
Police can't explain the surge. But locals like Carl Gay believe the weak economy has played a role by making it a violent and desperate time for some residents.
Gay told the Palladium-Item that "people are desperate, so they are taking measures you normally wouldn't think about."
A Richmond woman who was Gay's neighbor was fatally shot April 30 in a killing that also killed the pregnant woman's unborn baby.
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