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Tim Chitwood
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Columnist, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Sexual Assault , Childhood Abuse , Domestic Violence , Trauma , Sudden Loss
I hate what I don't like.
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By Tim Chitwood Verified| Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Verified Attorney Stacey Jackson presents closing arguments in defense of his client Kareem Lane in Superior Court on September 4, 2014. Lane is being retried for murder in the 1992 stabbing death of former MCSD school superintendent Jim Burns. Ledger-Enquirer file photo No one knows how far Stacey Jackson's star might have risen, had a killer disease not cast it into shadow.
By Tim Chitwood Verified, Kelby Hutchison Verified| Yahoo Verified Columbus had 57 homicides in 2023, according to the Ledger-Enquirer’s count. That brought the average over five years to 52. The five-year average, at the start of 2023, was 34. Authorities said a gang war that eventually subsided led to a recent peak of 70 reported in 2021, when the Columbus Police Department was critically short staffed. Columbus had had 45 in 2022, and 46 reported in 2020. The Ledger-Enquirer tallied 41 homicides in 2019; 34 in 2018; and 44 in 2017.
By Tim Chitwood Verified| Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Verified Attorney Stacey Jackson presents closing arguments in defense of his client Kareem Lane in Superior Court on September 4, 2014. Lane is being retried for murder in the 1992 stabbing death of former MCSD school superintendent Jim Burns. Ledger-Enquirer file photo No one knows how far Stacey Jackson's star might have risen, had a killer disease not cast it into shadow.
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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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