El Monte homicide rate soars

The stabbing of a man outside the Scenic Bar and Hotel on Garvey Avenue in El Monte Monday night was the city's seventh this year, according to authorities.

By comparison, at this time last year there were just three homicides in El Monte. What a difference a year makes.

Here's the Tribune's 2007 homicide database that I put together last year. You can search El Monte for the 2007 totals.