Two brutal incidents in which eight people were killed last month pushed up the city’s murder count, which through Oct. 31 was at 267—eight more that were killed through 10 months last year.
But although that total is just 22 below the 289 recorded all of last year, NYPD officials were hopeful, even confident, the city would remain below 300 for the third year running for the first time since the mid-1940s.
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