The Austin homicide map is crazy when you look at groupings of murders, especially when you consider the Sunset Valley one was one guy killing his grandparents (so not random crime but some nutbag) and the one near Far West was vehicular homicide...
When you dig in the homicides in Austin, I sometimes wonder if the raw numbers tell the whole story and there's maybe less random crime than some thing, especially compared to other cities.
https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/austin-homicide-map-2024/
January 1st - man kills girlfriend
March 27th - child abuse
April 13th - fentanyl death.
June 19th - murder suicide
June 25th - child killed by a family member
July 1st - son kills father
July 3rd - murder suicide
August 7th - vehicular homicide
September 21st - grandson kills 2 grandparents
September 24th - murder suicide
October 14th - man kills mother of his children
November 18th - domestic violence (weird rationale on this one... https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/apd-84-year-old-man-accused-of-murdering-woman-dog-in-east-austin-home/)
I did not count self-defense in the above because someone still may have died. Anyway that's 13 deaths that are certainly not random. Not that any death is good.
Other things I learned:
A 13-year old can be a one-man crime machine
Don't wear a $100,000 watch around town
Don't slash someone's tires unless you want to die
Sure sure... Riverside is gentrifying but...
Not all Rainey deaths float
Some people die of "apparent gunshot wounds"
If you are homeless and you brandish a machete, you and a buddy might die
If you're not homeless but steal a homeless man's drugs, you might die
Like game rooms and throwing dice? You might die.
If you provoke someone who is on his way to anger management meeting, it may not end well