The past weekend brought news of a fatal shooting downtown, near a bar and lounge in the Gaslamp Quarter.
San Diego continues to claim its ranking as one of the safest big cities in America, and a recent city report cited a decline in murder cases in the last year.
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When homicides do happen, most often they happen downtown, or in a few adjacent neighborhoods.
This timeline shows all city homicides since 2021, appearing as they happen, then fading as new cases replace them. Note the concentrated areas around downtown.
Of 10 neighborhoods with the largest total homicide numbers over that time, the trends from one year to the next show a pretty consistent pattern.
For more details on those cases, click on any of the dots in this map.
As for the downtown homicide, the shooting of Antwan Eugene Bluthenthal, 37-year-old Brian Tyner pleaded not guilty in the case Wednesday. A judge declined to set bail.
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