Detroit — Nearly 16 percent of the people killed in Detroit last year were out-of-towners, according to statistics released Friday by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office.
There were 413 homicide victims in Detroit in 2012, 66 of whom lived outside the city, the data show.
"A lot of suburbanites come into Detroit to get narcotics and pick up prostitutes, and they end up in trouble," said retired Detroit Police Officer David Malhalab.
"They'd get robbed, and when I'd ask them what they were doing in the neighborhood, they'd tell me they were looking for someone — but they couldn't tell me a name or address. You knew what they were doing."
The county's numbers are nearly identical to the figures Detroit Police released this month. The Police Department said there were 411 people killed in the city last year, although only 386 of them were classified as homicides. The other 25 were considered justifiable, and thus not added to the crime statistics reported to the FBI annually.
The murder rate of 53 per 100,000 residents — among the highest in the nation — means Detroiters are more likely to be killed now than nearly 40 years ago when the city was known as the murder capital.
With a dwindling population, 2012 saw the highest murder rate in Detroit since the crack cocaine epidemic of the late 1980s, when it was about 60 per 100,000 residents. The rate is worse than 1974, when the city had a record 714 murders, or 51 per 100,000 residents.
Wayne County Medical Examiner data shows Inkster last year had nine homicides, the second-highest total in the county. The city of about 25,000 residents had a murder rate of 36. The national average is 4.8.
Other Wayne County communities with multiple homicides were Dearborn, six; Highland Park, four; Livonia and Redford Township, three apiece; and Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Romulus, Taylor, Van Buren Township and Wyandotte, two apiece.
All other communities had one or none.
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