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Murder Rates in North Denver Change Little Over Past 5 Years

March 12, 2020 By David Sabados Leave a Comment

The Denver District Attorney’s Office has filed first-degree murder charges against 52-year old Charlene King for the shooting death of Terance Longo, age 67. On Feb. 9, Denver Police officers responded to a 911 call King placed from a home in the 4900 block of Clay Street in Chaffee Park. Officers found Longo dead on the scene and the medical examiner later announced that Longo had died from a gunshot wound. 

Charlene King

Homicides are relatively rare in North Denver compared to several other neighborhoods, according to statistics available from the Denver Police Department. The February killing marks the first murder in the Chaffee Park neighborhood in over five years. In the 10 neighborhoods that comprise The Denver North Star’s coverage area, 21 murders have been reported since the start of 2015, with an average of 4 per year.

Across the city, the Montbello neighborhood had the highest number of murders during that time (21), followed by Five Points (20), while the Union Station and North Capitol Hill neighborhoods had the highest murder rates by population density. The lowest homicide rates were in South Denver neighborhoods, several of which report zero homicides in the past five years.

Note: Denver police records combine the neighborhoods of Regis and Inspiration Point in the following data.

Murder by neighborhood Jan. 1, 2015 through Feb. 5, 2020

Total21
Regis/Inspiration Point1
Berkeley1
West Highland1
Sloan’s Lake3
West Colfax8
Chaffee Park1
Sunnyside5
Highland0
Jefferson Park1

By Year: 2015

Total4
Regis/Inspiration Point1
Berkeley0
West Highland0
Sloan’s Lake2
West Colfax0
Chaffee Park0
Sunnyside1
Highland0
Jefferson Park0

By Year: 2016

Total2
Regis/Inspiration Point0
Berkeley0
West Highland0
Sloan’s Lake0
West Colfax1
Chaffee Park0
Sunnyside1
Highland0
Jefferson Park0

By Year: 2017

Total4
Regis/Inspiration Point0
Berkeley0
West Highland0
Sloan’s Lake0
West Colfax2
Chaffee Park0
Sunnyside2
Highland0
Jefferson Park0

By Year: 2018

Total4
Regis/Inspiration Point0
Berkeley0
West Highland0
Sloan’s Lake1
West Colfax2
Chaffee Park0
Sunnyside1
Highland0
Jefferson Park0

By Year: 2019

Total6
Regis/Inspiration Point0
Berkeley1
West Highland1
Sloan’s Lake0
West Colfax3
Chaffee Park0
Sunnyside0
Highland0
Jefferson Park1

By Year: 2020 (January/February only)

Total1
Regis/Inspiration Point0
Berkeley0
West Highland0
Sloan’s Lake0
West Colfax0
Chaffee Park1
Sunnyside0
Highland0
Jefferson Park0

Photo of King courtesy of the Denver District Attorney’s Office.

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