Who, when, where -- but no why Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have investigated the slayings of 67 people this year. The numbers don't include the people who then turned guns on themselves after slaying someone else, or the handful of killings the district attorney's office decided were self-defense.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have investigated the slayings of 67 people this year. The numbers don't include the people who then turned guns on themselves after slaying someone else, or the handful of killings the district attorney's office decided were self-defense.

Sept. 30: The body of 16-year-old GREGORY ALFRED GOODSON was discovered along a wooded path near Simpson Road along the northwestern edge of Mecklenburg County. A relative reported the North Mecklenburg High senior missing last week after he disappeared Tuesday.

Sept. 28: MICHAEL WAYNE WINECOFF, 45,

died in a Chapel Hill hospital a month after he was set on fire while living in a homeless encampment in northeast Charlotte's woods.

Sept. 23: JONDALE SEANTA NEAL, 24, was shot and killed on a street along Charlotte's northwestern edge.

Sept. 13: YOLANDA RENEE COTTEN, 22, was shot multiple times in the south Charlotte home of her ex-boyfriend. He was charged with murder.

Sept. 10: LISA PAYNE, 34, was killed by a stray bullet that pierced her west Charlotte bedroom wall.

Sept. 1: LEROY SAMUEL POLK, 38, died of stab wounds in Grier Heights after telling a passerby he'd been robbed.

Aug. 28: CHARLES GAINES, 37, was shot in the neck in the parking lot of "The Room" nightclub near the Park Road Shopping Center on Aug. 23. He died after a five-day hospitalization.

Aug. 27: REAGAN BRANIN, 15 months old, died after being on life support. Her 20-year-old mother was then hospitalized at a psychiatric facility in Morganton, and police later charged her with murder.

Aug. 26: PEDRO REYES ESTRADA, 24, was shot outside Zapata's Cantina on Albemarle Road after an argument with his wife's boyfriend.

Aug. 24: ELAINE MONGER, 16, was shot and killed at a party in University City just before she was slated to begin her junior year at North Mecklenburg High.

Aug. 24: JERRY WESTBROOK, 48, stumbled into a cement company on the northern edge of uptown Charlotte on July 28 with a gunshot wound. He died nearly a month later.

Aug. 23: FRANKLIN WILLIAM

DAVIS, 42, was pronounced dead after he was found shot on Alma Court near where Interstates 77 and 85 meet.

Aug. 12: MICHAEL TYRONE EVANS, 39, was found shot inside a Chevrolet Trailblazer in a coin-laundry parking lot on Freedom Drive in west Charlotte.

Aug. 6: YONNI MORALES

MARADIAGA, 24, was shot when he pulled out a knife as he was robbed on Burner Drive near Eastland Mall.

Aug. 6: MIGUEL GUEVARA GARCIA, 26, died after he was stabbed outside an apartment complex on Farm Pond Lane off Albemarle Road.

Aug. 6: JOSE LUIS VALLE, 20, SHEMICA RENE BAKER, 21, and

IMMANUEL LAMAR GREENE, 19, were all shot at a home on Eastwood Drive near Garinger High School. All three died.

July 31: JAMON BAKER, 28, was one of three people shot at what police called an "illegal liquor house" party on Fleming Street near West Tyvola Road. The others recovered but Baker, a father of four, died.

July 28: TALUT SMITH, 32, died from a gunshot wound several hours after he was shot outside the Uptown Cabaret strip club. Police said the father of three had been arguing with a group of men inside the club before they were all kicked out.

July 24: ELIAS ZELAYA-ORTEGA, 30, was found shot in a pickup parked near Custer Street in northern Charlotte.

July 15: KENYADDA MARIE

PATTERSON, 31, was found sexually assaulted and strangled behind a church on Erwin Road in southwestern Mecklenburg. The single mother was studying to become a nurse while working two jobs caring for special-needs children.

July 11: RASHAAN SANDERS, 25, died 10 days after he was shot in the gut on Oaklawn Avenue in northern Charlotte. Police said he had been arguing with an acquaintance.

July 9: JAMES LEE SELF, 27, died after police said he ran into a woman's second-floor apartment on Nevin Road in northern Charlotte when another man tried to rob him. The two men fought and Self, the father of a 9-week-old daughter, was shot.

July 7: MONTRIECE DIXON, 17, was found shot on the corner of Oaklawn Road and Stroud Park Court in northern Charlotte. The teen was planning to take the final tests to get his GED.

July 5: CHRISTY GALVIN, 26, was found dead in her University City bed. Someone called 911 from the former UNC Charlotte volleyball star's home the day before. Her ex-boyfriend was arrested at the Canadian border while driving her car.

July 4: JOSE LUIS OCTAVIANO, 20, died from a head injury in the parking lot of the Latino Americano restaurant on Eastway Drive after a fight.

July 3: KENNETH EUGENE

JOHNSON, 55, was shot and killed in his Goff Street front yard in northwest Charlotte's Hoskins neighborhood. His longtime friend and neighbor, Rick Ingram, 42, then turned the gun on himself, police said, in what they called a murder-suicide. Ingram's sister and her boyfriend were slain the week before.

July 2: EDWIN ALEXANDER GARCIA, 25, was found shot at the gates of the Oak Park apartments on Dinadan Drive near Nations Ford Road in southwest Charlotte.

June 30: LARRY WILLIAM HOVIS, 51, was found shot in a wooded area in northwest Charlotte's Lakewood community. Court records listed him as homeless.

June 29: ISAIAH ANDREAL REDD, one month old, died at Carolinas Medical Center in Pineville. His 19-year-old father was charged with murder.

June 26: DEBERA ANN INGRAM, 45, and ALVIN CLINTON WHITLEY, 48, were shot in their pickup in the middle of Moores Chapel Road in northwestern Mecklenburg. Minutes earlier, Whitley had picked up Ingram, his live-in girlfriend, from her overnight shift at a convenience store. A week later, police said, Ingram's brother shot and killed a neighbor, then himself.

June 25: ROBERT STEPHEN BASS, 53, a former stripper known as Peter Adonis, died days after a fight at a home on Briardale Drive in southeast Charlotte.

June 15: DANNY KAYE JOHNSON, 40, was shot on a park boardwalk near Mallard Creek Church Road in University City. A pastor was charged with murder.

June 15: FRANK DEAN CAMERON, 41, died after a five-day hospitalization from head injuries he suffered in a fight in the parking lot of St. Mary's Chapel on Third Street just outside uptown.

June 9: NICHOLAS MEDINA

ALPIZAR, 26, was shot when three armed men tried to rob him and some friends on Archdale Drive near Interstate 77 in southwest Charlotte. He died after his friends rushed him to Carolinas Medical Center.

June 2: ELIZANDRO ESQUIVEL was found shot several times on East W.T. Harris Boulevard in east Charlotte.

June 1: BRYAN GUTIERREZ

CERVANTES, 9 months old, was suffocated. His 17-year-old mother was charged with murder.

June 1: MICHAEL JOVAN BOWDEN, 22, was pronounced dead just after midnight lying inside a carport in the Lakewood community of northwest Charlotte. He had been visiting his old neighborhood when someone confronted his friend and fired a gun. A man with a pending murder charge was arrested.

May 27: DALLAS SULLIVAN, 69, was found dead at his home on Pamlico Street near the Belmont and Plaza-Midwood neighborhoods. His 1999 Lincoln Town Car was found days later near Myrtle Beach.

May 29: COREY ANTWAN STOWE, 17, died after he was shot in the head while picking up two of his neighbor's teenage children from a party in northeast Charlotte's Hidden Valley area. His car ended up in a creek by Eastway Middle School.

May 26: KATHERINE BROOME JOHNSON, 38, was found shot dead in the southeast Charlotte home she shared with her boyfriend on Briardale Drive. He was charged with murder.

May 22: SAMUEL OMAR BROWN JR., 25, was killed in a shooting that also injured two others at the Rack Runners Sports Bar & Billiards club on North Tryon Street near Tom Hunter Road about 15 minutes before the bar's scheduled closing.

May 21: The body of AARON DALE SMITH, 41, was found by a relative inside his apartment on Wexford Meadows Lane near University City. There were no signs of forced entry.

May 14: VAISHALI BIPINCHANDRA SARODE, 32, was stabbed in her home on Brathay Court in University City. Her husband was arrested and charged with murder several days after he was treated for self-inflicted stab wounds.

May 13: DAMION MARQUI

MEDLEY, 28, was shot to death by a teenage boy on Juniper Drive, just north of the I-77 and I-85 interchange. Police called it a domestic disturbance turned homicide.

May 8: The body of JOHN ALTON ISAAC JOHNSON, 21, was found in the driver's seat of a wrecked Chevrolet Caprice in the median of the Brookshire Freeway near I-77. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said he had been shot, apparently while driving.

May 7: LEE SCOTT CARTER, a 32-year-old British man, was shot and killed at his home on East Worthington Avenue in Dilworth in front of his girlfriend. Police said the girlfriend's estranged husband shot Carter, then killed himself.

May 7: JULIUS SCOTT STEVENS, 39, was found dead in a crashed Ford Mustang off Marvin Road in Grier Heights. The medical examiner ruled that Stevens died from a gunshot wound, not injuries from the wreck.

April 29: MICHAEL HAYNES-

BOWERS, 41, was found lying in the grass on Endolwood Road with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. A Mecklenburg sheriff's deputy in the east Charlotte neighborhood near North Sharon Amity Road found the body after hearing the gunshots.

April 17: JOHNATHAN DICKSON, 36, was found dead in the gated Delta Crossing apartment complex off East W.T. Harris Boulevard in east Charlotte.

March 27: The body of JULIO GARCIA MONTES, 35, was found outside the Vista Villa apartment buildings on Barrington Drive off The Plaza. He appeared to have been stabbed.

March 27: SAUR OCHOA-BELLO, 38, returned to his Glen Hollow apartment on Central Avenue with what appeared to be knife wounds. He died several hours later at Carolinas Medical Center. Originally from Acatlán, Mexico, he had lived in the apartment for about six months while working in construction.

March 26: TROY KIDWELL, 36, visiting the Charlotte region, died in a Continental Inn on Sugar Creek Road in the northeast end of the city.

March 21: BENJAMIN NOLAN

ANNAS, 25, was shot outside his home in an apparent robbery attempt on Vinca Circle in University City. The fitness instructor played football at Western Carolina University and was known as a champion wrestler in his hometown of Kernersville.

March 14: ANTHONY DEVON

WILLIAMS JR., 21, a Central Piedmont Community College student, was shot during a house party on North Ramsey Street in northwest Charlotte. On the way to the hospital, the 1984 Chevrolet carrying him crashed on Brookshire Freeway.

Feb. 27: The body of HARMAHN JAMAUL SMITH, 18, was found floating in a lake in east Charlotte almost a month after he was reported missing. His gold-colored Maxima was found shortly after he disappeared.

Feb 21: FRANK JAMES SADLER III, 43, was fatally shot on the sidewalk outside his Eagle Peak Drive home in northwest Charlotte's Pawtuckett neighborhood. Police say his 79-year-old father pulled the trigger but has not been charged in the case.

Feb. 4: COREY ANTONIO HARRIS, 30, was found lying in a front yard outside a home on Tuckaseegee Road with multiple gunshot wounds. He died within hours. Police arrested three men.

Jan. 25: JEFFREY PAUL MOE, 40, was shot more than once at his home on Washburn Avenue off Monroe Road in southeast Charlotte. Police later charged his roommate with murdering the construction worker.

Jan. 25: JAMES MELKER, 58, and BARBARA HOEY, 50, were found dead inside the charred remains of a house on State Street in northwest Charlotte. The two had suffered serious injuries before the house was torched.

Jan. 20: MEHRETAB

WOLDEGHEBRIEL, 50, died weeks after he was shot by a man trying to rob the Midtown Food Mart where he worked on Shamrock and Eastway drives. A relative working in another store in the family-run chain shot and killed apparent robber Jamie Pedro Moreno on March 2. Authorities decided not to prosecute the relative.

Jan. 9: LEVI MENJIVAR, 17, died hours after a shooting between cars on Albemarle Road near Independence Boulevard. Police said the slaying had gang ties.

Jan. 1: PHILLIP LEMON RHINE, 28, was found in a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head on McAllister Drive near Beatties Ford Road in northern Charlotte, police said.

Jan. 1: RONNIE WESLEY AUSTIN, 39, was found at the InTown Suites on Pressley Road in southwestern Charlotte with a gunshot wound to the leg. He later died. His sister-in-law and another man were charged.