D.C.’s homicide rate for 2019 has now surpassed that of last year’s, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.

As of noon on December 23, there have been 162 homicides so far this year. At this point last year, there were 158 homicides, and 160 total by the end of the year. Per D.C. police data, roughly half of the city’s homicides this year remain unsolved. Prior to 2018, the last time the District’s homicide rate was this high was in 2015, when 162 people were killed.

District police are currently investigating some of the most recent homicides this year: the fatal shootings of Richard Washington, a 28-year-old who was shot on Thursday, and of 28-year-old Nyesha Lenea Galloway, of Hyattsville, who was discovered suffering from gunshot wounds late Friday night before succumbing to her injuries.

The city recently announced it will spend $5 million for at least 140 new closed circuit TV security cameras in areas experiencing high crime rates. The cameras will be installed first in the city’s fall crime initiative areas, which are in Southwest, Columbia Heights, the U Street Corridor, Shaw, Saratoga, Greenway, Washington Highlands, and Congress Heights.

The new cameras will have more memory space and provide higher resolution images than current cameras. When there is shotspotter detection nearby, the lens of the camera will be able to automatically swivel toward the sound of the gunshots, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham said at a press conference last month.

Washington City Paper compiled remembrances of many of the people who were victims of homicides in 2019.

Natalie Delgadillo contributed reporting to this story, which originally appeared on WAMU.