Dayton's deadliest start since 2009

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - 2 NEWS reported six homicides in six days in Dayton in February, so 2 NEWS Investigates looked at Dayton police statistics to see just how deadly 2013 is turning out to be in comparison to recent years.

Already in the first two months of this year there have been ten homicides in Dayton and that number doesn't include the body found at the Rumpke Recycling Plant. Investigators don't believe foul play was involved in that case.

The number ten doubles what police reported in the first quarters of years 2012, 2011, and 2010.  In each of those years, before April, there were five murders or what the FBI calls non-negligent manslaughter cases.

We had to go back to 2009 to see the kind of violent deaths we're seeing now in Dayton.  That year during the first three months there were nine homicides.