(Columbia, SC) -- Violent crime is increasing in South Carolina.
SLED's 2020 crime report was released this week, showing murders statewide went up 22-percent in 2020.
That puts South Carolina's murder rate at the highest it’s been since 1993.
In 2017, there were 373 murders in the state... a number that has since increased by 48-percent. There were 552 murders in South Carolina in 2020.