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| Almost half of homicide victims in '05 were black. | |||
| WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the nation's homicide victims in 2005 were black and the number of black men who were slain is on the rise. | |||
| A majority of the black homcide victims were relatively young - between 17 and 29, the Justice Department said in a study release Thursday. | |||
| Blacks represented an estimated 13% of the US population in 2005, but were the victims of 49% of all murders and 15% of rapes, assaults and other nonfatal crimes nationwide. | |||
| Most of the black homicide victims - 98% - were killed by other black people, the study found. About 85%of the white victims were slain by other white people. | |||
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