In our “Murder By Numbers” piece, we included three homicides by members of the Minneapolis Police Department. We then received a few phone calls from angry and/or curious readers who wanted to know why we’d done such a thing. Here’s the answer: We included them because they are part of the violence we described in the story. This was not to suggest in any way that these were murders. They were not. Nevertheless, they were the taking of a life by another person. That is the definition of homicide.
In his “Murder By Numbers” essay, writer Frank Clancy refers to a November bus-stop shooting and notes that the victim survived. But later, because of an editing error, that incident is referred to as “that November bus-stop murder.”
In the accompanying list of all 2006 homicides, we stated that charges had been dropped against Darryl D. Johnson Jr., 17, of Minneapolis, in the murder of Courtney Brown, No. 46 on our list. Second-degree murder charges were dropped, but were replaced with first-degree charges. Johnson is in custody awaiting trial.
In the case of No. 51, Trevor Robert Marsh, a 17-year-old student at South High, we transposed some ages of those charged with his murder. Raine Cee Neiss, who is charged with the murder, is 16 years old. George M. Boleo, 25, and Tia M. Dropik, 18, are charged with being accomplices. We regret these errors.
