A 14-year-old boy was shot to death on the street, the city's first homicide victim of the year, the police said.

Only six or seven have appeared to be homicide victims, he said.

He became the first homicide victim in the city's subway system this year.

"My son could have been a homicide victim as well," she said.

Out of the 161 homicide victims last year, 131 were black men.

The black population represented 69% of the homicide victims in 2009.

They have worked with battered women who became homicide victims.

Also in 1989, 270 homicide victims were 19 years old or younger.

People with a criminal record were also more likely to die as homicide victims.

They also found the body of a woman, apparently a homicide victim.