June 11, 2016 - Scene from the City’s 100th homicide on the parking lot of Family Dollar at 800 Thomas. (Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal)

By The Commercial Appeal

Memphis hit an unenviable milestone Saturday.

Shortly after 2 p.m., the city recorded its 100th homicide of 2016.

According to Memphis police, a man was shot and killed on the parking lot of the Family Dollar at 831 Thomas St. in North Memphis.

Two men allegedly stole products from a delivery person, MPD spokesman Louis Brownlee said. One of the men was shot and found unresponsive at the scene. The man was later pronounced dead.

Brownlee said the shooter, 34 years old, was arrested but it was unclear if he would be charged.

A crowd gathered across the street from the store, where barricades draped with black cloth sectioned off a portion of the lot. At least nine police cars were on the scene.

A woman screamed at the sky when she learned of the death, crying, "I just want to see my son." She fainted and was placed in an ambulance.

No further information was made available. The investigation is ongoing.

The slaying occurred about 10 weeks earlier than the 100th homicide of 2015, which happened Aug. 21 last year.

The city remains on a pace to eclipse the previous record for homicides in a year, when 213 were killed in 1993.

The steady clip of homicides started early: 10 people were killed through the first 13 days of the year.

They've involved numerous children as victims and as the perpetrators. Some killings have outraged the community while others barely caused notice.

"... until our community comes together at every angle, Memphis is in trouble," said Keith Norman, pastor at First Baptist-Broad and the Memphis police chaplain.

Two of this year's most shocking homicides occurred in the heart of Downtown. According to police, Kwasi Corbin, 19, pointed an assault rifle out the window of a Nissan Maxima on May 22 as he was heading down Second Street, just across from the Flying Saucer.

Corbin opened fire on a small group of people, killing 18-year-old Myneishia Johnson and wounding two men. Police don't think Johnson was the target. She leaves behind a 1-year-old son, Kylan.

Then on June 4, Memphis police Officer Verdell Smith was fatally struck at B.B. King Boulevard and Beale by a fleeing car after three people were shot outside Westy's and Bass Pro Shops.

Justin Welch, 21, is facing multiple charges in the violent crime spree. Smith, 46, was an 18-year veteran of the police department, and leaves behind a fiancée and children.

Other facts and figures:

Eleven of this year's victims have been youths aged 17 and under. Four more were fetuses.

The oldest victim was Paul Maher, who was 78 when he died in January. Maher was found tied up at his home on Dec. 31, and had been left there for three days. The suspects broke in, tied him up and stole his car. Although police later found Maher's car, the crime remains unsolved.

Several of this year's homicides weren't actually killed this year. Memphis police count a homicide by when a medical examiner rules it as such, not when it happened. So, even though Mary Burgess was shot by her husband in 1986, she died in 2016. The medical examiner ruled that she died as a result of that shooting, adding her to this year's count.

In another case, Jeffrey Atherly was shot near Graceland in 2003 but died on Dec. 27, 2015. In 2016, a medical examiner tied his death to that shooting and ruled it a homicide.

Also, Mackie Finlay died last year, but his death was determined to be a homicide this year. His caregiver, Joshua Gilley, has been charged in the case.

At least one of the victims was not a Memphis resident. Lonnie Ludvigson of Iowa was driving across the country for an Internet shipping company when he stopped in Memphis on Jan. 9.

Four masked men in a blue Mazda approached his truck on South Prescott Street near Highland. They robbed and shot him to death. No one has been caught, despite a $13,500 CrimeStoppers reward.

"When we had to go down (to Memphis) to get my brother's effects, we were certainly very, very nervous being there," said the victim's brother, Jeremy Ludvigson. "It was very difficult.

"We met with a couple of the witnesses, kind of got every detail about that. It was hard, but we wanted to. It provided some closure for my mom and I, talking with them and finding out what happened."

"I always try to stay level by counting my blessings," said Lonnie's mother, Donna Ludvigson. "And a blessing was that Lonnie was a 12-year survivor of cancer. They'd told us it would probably come back in six months, and we had 12 more years. So I really try to concentrate on the positives."

Three people were shot by police officers. Johnathan Bratcher and Alexio Allen were killed by on-duty officers. Felipe Soto was killed by an off-duty officer taking part in a custody exchange. Bratcher's case has been turned over to the Shelby County D.A.; the other two are still in the hands of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Several victims not only knew their killers, but were related to them. A 12-year-old whose name was not revealed allegedly killed his brother, and Zedric Owens is accused of stabbing both his sister and his 75-year-old mother to death.