Vermont's Largest City Sees 5 Homicides, Most Since 1960

the city had reported 25 gunfire incidents this year, compared to 13 in 2021 and 11 in 2020. In 2017, there was one.

Many of the shootings reported in the city from 2020 until June, when city officials held a news conference to outline their response, involved “a recurring group of individuals as perpetrators, associated individuals or victims,” Mayor Miro Weinberger said at the time. The killings and shootings come as the city’s police department tries to rebuild its staffing levels. In 2020, the City Council passed a resolution directing the department to reduce its maximum number of officers through attrition from 105 to 74.

Last year, the City Council authorized the department to increase its staffing level to an effective number of 87, but Murad said at the time that it will take years to rebuild the department. As of Nov. 15, Burlington had 62 officers. The most recent killing came early Sunday when Abubakar Sharrif, 23, was stabbed at a Main Street restaurant. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.Murad said that of the 15 killings in the city since 2012, nine involved firearms.

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