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Three fatal shootings in Tulsa on Monday brought the city’s total to 58 homicides so far this year — 13 short of the record 71 killings in 2009.

With more than 2½ months left in 2016, Tulsa Police Department homicide Sgt. Dave Walker said the number this year is “befuddling.”

“This many murders is unusual,” he said. “There is no real thread to the murders this year. Most are altercations and domestic related.”

In the latest homicides, a couple were killed during a dispute inside a north Tulsa bar early Monday, and a man was fatally shot outside an apartment complex in midtown Tulsa on Monday afternoon.

Walker said a man and woman were pronounced dead in a bar at 726 N. Lewis Ave. The shooter is described as a 30- to 35-year-old Hispanic man who is about 5 feet tall and weighs around 170 pounds.

Walker said the shooter had been “making advances” to the bartender, a relative of the female victim. The female victim told the man to leave, and then a disturbance began, Walker said.

“The victim and her boyfriend have words with the suspect, and the suspect produces a handgun and shoots the couple,” Walker said.

The shooter fled before police arrived.