On New Year's Night, just two blocks away from the South Station in Boston, city full of people loudly celebrating the coming of 2007, a black man was shot multiple times from a car. He was the 74th victim of homicide in Boston in 2006.



"The Boston Globe" in the edition of January 1, 2007, reports the statistics of crime in the capital of New England last year.

Of the 73 people that were killed:

61 were black, 8 Hispanic (any race), 11 white and 1 Asian;

66 were male and 7 were female;

38 were between 14 and 25 years old, 29 had between 26 and 44 years, 5 were older than 49 and 1 was younger than than 5 years old;

most of them were killed in the months of May, June, July and October on weekends and Mondays between 8 PM and 3 AM in the neighborhoods of Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan;

54 died of gunshot wounds, 13 were stabbed with a knife and 6 died due to other trauma;



ONLY 36 percent of the murder cases were solved.