Photo by Edward Kimmel.

A fatal shooting in Edgewood has become the 100th homicide this year in D.C., according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Travis Barksdale, a 25-year-old District resident from Northeast, died on Thursday morning. Police arrived to the 600 block of Evarts Street NE shortly after midnight after reports of gunshots and found Barksdale suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The homicide rate year-to-date marks a 35 percent increase from 2017. At this time last year, there were 74 homicides; the city ended 2017 with a total of 116 homicides.

In May, Mayor Muriel Bowser deployed additional public safety resources “in areas of Wards 7 and 8 experiencing spikes in violent crime,” including bumping up MPD staffing levels by about 25 percent in the Sixth and Seventh police districts.

However, the spate of homicides has not abated, most of which have been concentrated in Wards 5, 7, and 8. One of the most prominent deaths occurred in July, when 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was killed after a group of masked gunmen opened fire onto a courtyard in Northeast. She had been heading to an ice cream truck.

Over the course of the past two decades, D.C. has seen a marked decrease in homicides from a high of 262 in 2002, to a low of 88 in 2012. But in the years since then, the numbers have largely gone up.

Here’s an interactive look at the D.C. homicide rate over the past 20 years:

This mainly tracks with national trends. Overall, there was a 45 percent decline in murders between 1991 and 2017, according to a sample of 78 of the country’s large cities, but violent crime has risen from 2014 through 2017, including a 25 percent uptick in murders.

According to D.C. police data, violent crime overall in D.C. is down 6 percent this year compared to this time in 2017.