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Eight-eight people have been shot in Providence, R.I., so far this year, a city with a population of 178,432. An investigation conducted by The Providence Journal has calculated the cost of this violence, and its findings are presented this week in a three-part series, “The Cost of a Bullet.”

Using data from the Children’s Safety Network and The Urban Institute in Washington D.C., the newspaper found that the cost of each fatal shooting totals $5,094,980. More than $3 million of that accounts for lost quality of life for those killed and diminished quality of life for shooting survivors. $1.5 million is the amount of income each victim would have earned during his or her life. Medical care and criminal justice costs were placed at some $423,962, all borne by taxpayers. Each shooting victim who survives costs the system an average of $432,813. And these costs are recurring.

“If someone comes in as a shooting victim, there is a very good chance that they are coming back,” said Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Rhode Island Hospital.

The series, which is worth reading, also chronicles a paralyzed former gang member and a 12-year-old girl killed in gang crossfire.

Here is today’s report.

—Jennifer Mascia

A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the stomach while handling a gun in Kansas City, Mo., Monday night. Police are trying to determine how the firearm came into the child’s possession.

—KCTV5.com

Lubbock, Tex., police officer Timothy Varner was shot and wounded by a gun-wielding man in front of a homeless shelter Saturday night. 32-year-old Jeremy Moor was charged with aggravated assault and attempted capital murder. He was arrested in August for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

—Amarillo Globe-News

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the shooting death of a Marine on his base in Quantico, Va., late Saturday. Cpl. Daniel B. Vilevac, 23, was found unconscious and pronounced dead. It is the fourth shooting death of a Marine on the base this year; three people were killed on March 21 in a murder–suicide inside a staff barracks at Officer Candidates School.

—Fredericksburg.com

26-year-old Savannah Allen and 29-year-old Monica Collins were killed in separate shootings in St. Louis, Mo., Sunday. At around 6:35 a.m., Allen was found with a gunshot wound to her cheek. At about 10 p.m., Collins was found with multiple gunshot wounds on the steps of a vacant home. Police have not released information about possible suspects in either case.

—KSDK.com

Kathy Bookout, 57, was shot and killed at her home in Madisonville, Tenn., Sunday. James Ray Parker, 31, who said the victim was his great aunt, confessed to the crime. No motive was disclosed, but police said the murder was premeditated.

—WATE.com

26-year-old Dustin Curtiss was shot three times and killed in a domestic dispute in Hinsdale, N.H., Sunday evening. No one has been arrested, as the investigation is in its early stages.

—Brattleboro Reformer

51-year-old Ricardo Vazquez was shot and killed following an argument in a Mexican restaurant in Dallas, Tex., Sunday night. The shooter left the restaurant, grabbed a handgun from his pickup truck and opened fire. He is at large. Police believe alcohol was involved.

—NBC DFW

Jerome Williams, 35, was shot and killed following an argument outside a lounge in Gary, Ind., early Monday. The shooter, 29, opened fire after the victim, who was intoxicated, aimed his car at him during an altercation. The gunman is in custody but will likely be released.

—Post-Tribune

A 24-year-old man was shot several times and killed in the Grove Park area of Baltimore, Md., Monday morning. Police have no suspects. The homicide is the first in the neighborhood in five years.

—Baltimore Sun

A man was shot and killed in Newark, N.J., Monday night. It is the second fatal shooting in Newark in as many days: a 29-year old man was shot and killed in the city’s West Ward early Sunday.

—NJ.com

27-year-old Robert DeArman III was accidentally shot and killed at a home in Florence, Ariz., Friday night. The victim and three friends were drinking and passing around a .40 caliber-handgun when it discharged, hitting him in the chest. Police are investigating.

—Arizona Daily Star

Two people were injured in a shooting in Southeast Washington, D.C. Monday evening. No suspect information has been released.

—NBC Washington

Romelle Dickerson, 24, was shot and critically wounded at an apartment complex on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday night. At about 10 p.m., two men walked up to him and opened fire, shooting him nine times in the legs. The victim crawled from the parking lot into an apartment, leaving a trail of blood behind him. Police have not identified any suspects in the case.

—Cleveland.com

A 29-year-old man was shot and wounded in Asbury Park, N.J., Sunday night. Police did not say whether it was a targeted shooting or what the motive might have been.

—NJ.com

Chad Blanks, 28, was found dead with a bullet wound in his back in Hoke County, N.C., Monday afternoon. The investigation indicates the shooting may be drug-related.

—FayObserver.com

22-year-old Rodriguez Price was shot and wounded in the parking lot of a nightclub in Sandy Springs, Ga., early Monday. Witnesses said a fight between the victim and the gunman was broken up several times before the gunman opened fire and fled.

—SandySpringsPatch

One man is dead and another man was wounded in separate shootings a block apart in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Ill., Monday morning. The wounded man was driving when he was shot in the head, and went on to hit three cars. No word on suspects or a motive.

—WLS-TV

50-year-old Craig Jenkins was shot in the stomach in Seabrook, S.C., early Monday. The victim named 16-year-old Zajuan Travist James as the perpetrator; he was arrested. The two had been involved in a verbal altercation several hours earlier.

—The Island Packet

One man was killed and two men were injured following a fatal shooting in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., Monday night. The victims were in their late teens and early 20s. Police said it was either a drive-by or a walk-up shooting. Police were reportedly called to San Francisco General after the families of the shooting victims caused a disturbance. Earlier that day, a man was shot and killed in the city’s Mission District. Vincent Jacobo, 56, was arrested. No motive was disclosed.

—KTVU.com

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 9,329 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.