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    2020’s murder increase is ‘unprecedented.’ But is it a blip?

    Dec 14, 2020 3 minutes
    A “Thou shalt not kill” sign is nailed to a pole in the Third Ward, one of the neighborhoods with the highest homicide rate, in New Orleans on Jan. 29, 2019. New Orleans is one of 51 U.S. cities where homicides spiked during the 2020 pandemic.

    After police discovered Huong Nguyen’s body in a car trunk earlier this year in New Orleans East, suspicion fell on her brother.

    After being spotted on a surveillance camera walking away from his sister’s car the night she disappeared, Hoa Nguyen has been charged and, if convicted, could spend the rest of his life in prison.

    For all its singular tragedy, Ms. Nguyen’s death is part of a tide of gun violence rising from New Orleans to Lubbock, Texas. Coming off a

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