Charlotte-Mecklenburg sees increase in homicides

With less than a month left in 2022, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area has seen more homicides than it did in 2021.

Murders are happening across Mecklenburg County and faith leaders say it’ll take several solutions to do something about it.

“Gun violence is increasing around the country,” Reverend Glencie Rhedrick with the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice told WCNC Charlotte.

In 2021, 94 people were killed in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, 102 lives have been taken as of Dec. 7, 2022.

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