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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's homicide rate was higher last year than either of the two previous years.
The Deseret News reports 87 people died as a result of homicides in the state in 2016.
That's about a 20 percent increase from the 73 reported the year before. Utah had 79 homicides in 2014.
Eight of last year's 87 victims were shot by police officers. That's down from 10 fatal officer-involved shootings in 2015 and 14 in 2014.
About 60 percent of last year's homicide victims were shot to death and more than one-quarter of them were related to domestic violence.
Ten involved some kind of robbery and at least two stemmed from road-rage incidents.
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