The Region - News from Feb. 10, 1985

One man was largely responsible for the fact that San Diego’s homicide rate shot up 33.8% in 1984, from 77 the year before to 103. He was James Huberty, who killed 21 people in a San Ysidro hamburger restaurant before being shot to death by a police sniper. Without that July 18 massacre, Police Chief William Kolender told a City Council committee, the increase was only 6.5%, which he attributed to a rise in drug dealing and availability of weapons.