Compton was only four days away from an entire calendar month without a murder—something that hadn’t happened since November 2009, and before that, January 2006—when two people were killed in separate incidents on Aug. 27.

Just one day before, on Aug. 26, Compton Sheriff’s Station Operations Lt. Brian Meeder had told The Bulletin that the month of August had been “really slow.”

The day after Meeder’s observation, however, two murders occurred.

First, authorities said a man was fatally stabbed by his 23-year-old sister at approximately 11:50 a.m. on Aug. 27 in a home in the 800 block of Magnolia Street near Wilmington Avenue. The pair had apparently been fighting. Patricia Gomez was arrested at the scene and was being held in lieu of $1 million bail, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The second incident took place at about 6:55 p.m. in the 100 block of South Alameda Street near Compton Boulevard, when a Latino man was shot to death. The circumstances surrounding that incident were not immediately known, a sheriff’s deputy said.

Thirty-four days had passed since the last homicide in Compton on July 23; that’s more than a month, but the station records statistics in terms of calendar months.

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