Breakdown of Hamilton's Six Murders in 2015, Carmon Ward Added

Breakdown of Hamilton 2015 homicides to this date with the sixth murder, Carmon Ward. All murders have been in the lower city apart from the latest two, in Waterdown and Ancaster. There have been four male victims and two female victims. All suspects are males. Of the six killings, three are shootings. You can find a list of the seven 2014 murders in Hamilton here.

Date of Murder		Victim	Victim's Age	Cause of Death	City Ward	Suspect
January 8th, 2015		Nathan Miller	20	Shooting	3 (28 Madison Avenue)	Male 15, Jemaal Wilson, 20, Shamoiey Akindejoye 21
March 25th, 2015		Renee Neganiwina	26	Fire?	4 (561 Kenilworth Avenue)	Joseph Snelgrove, 38
May 15th, 2015		William McConville	40	Beating	2 (Stinson and Victoria)	Gordon Eugene O'Hara, 33, and Joshua Vernon O'Hara, 27
August 12th, 2015		Shariek Douse	18	Shooting	2 (MacNab Street North and Simcoe Street)	N/A
August 13th?, 2015		Lori Constable	55	Asphyxiation	15 (Riley Street, Waterdown)	Wayne Constable, 55 (husband, deceased, murder suicide
December 21st, 2015		Carmon Ward	60	Shooting	12 (Miller Drive, Ancaster)	N/A

Parking Meters in Waterdown and Stoney Creek

I recently started reading Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking and remembered the recent issues with introducing parking meters in the business districts in Waterdown and Stoney Creek. Here's a CBC radio piece about the issue.

Obviously the business owners are not fans of losing the free parking, but a solution Shoup mentions in his book to get businesses on board is to give the revenues to the area rather than into general revenues. One way in Hamilton would be to give the revenue to the local BIAs which could then use the funds for local improvements. The funds from the parking meters added to Gore Park now that the buses are gone should probably be used to improve the park, although the funds are pretty small.

Of course the city is desperate for revenue, so there's probably no way to keep these from general revenues. I'm actually surprised that the city hasn't extended the hours for parking meters around Augusta and Hess Village on Friday and Saturday night beyond 9 pm. All the surrounding parking lots have long since charged for these hours.