Second death in overnight shooting
A second death has been counted in the shooting overnight in Montreal West. The victims in the car were only aged 17 and 18; a third passenger fled unhurt. This makes homicides #14 and #15 this year.
Statistical anomaly: of the 15 homicides, 14 were of men (or boys).
Leagle 06:15 on 2022-07-29 Permalink
That’s no anomaly. Looking at yearly murder statistics for Montreal, you’ll note that murders of women and girls are very rare overall.
Kate 09:01 on 2022-07-29 Permalink
By this time last year, there were six murders of women.
saintjacques 12:09 on 2022-07-29 Permalink
Since 2014 through 2020, there were roughly 3 male homicides for every female homicide in Canada, according to Statistics Canada (4,508 total homicides; 3,344 male victims and 1,153 female victims). I imagine that the ratio for Quebec (or Montreal, for that matter) probably does not deviate significantly from the national rate. So an assertion that murders of girls and women are “very rare overall” really stretches the definition of “very rare.”
As an analogue, consider flipping a coin four times and the final tally is three heads and one tail. I can’t imagine too many people would say that result is “very rare.”
Leagle 17:17 on 2022-07-29 Permalink
Certainly not “very rare”, but comparatively rare, thankfully.