homicides

St. Louis has had the reputation (deservedly so in most cases) of being known as the "murder capital" of the United States. Based on some new stats, there's a place in Illinois that rivals it with double the homicide rate.

If I said that I had found numbers to show you how likely you are to get murdered in Missouri, you would probably assume that's a bad thing. It really isn't. I'll try to show you that despite the bad rap the Show Me State gets for violent crime, it might not be as bad as you thought.

On the evening of February 26, 2015, at approximately 10:15 p.m., the Texas County Sheriff’s Department requested assistance from the Missouri State Highway Patrol with a disturbance involving a weapon at a residence in Tyrone, Missouri.