EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Police Service says the city is on track in 2021 to match the 38 homicides from last year, despite a recent run of killings. The number of year-to-date homicides has nearly doubled from seven at this point in 2020 to 13 today. Investigators are looking into a 14th case as well but say they are not ready to release details. Insp. Brent Dahlseide of the EPS Major Crimes Branch says that although the recent homicides appear unrelated, they fit a typical pattern. Four of the 13 confirmed homicides have happened in May. "We typically have about one or two periods a year where we will see three or four investigations within a week," he said, noting that homicide detectives had opened four cases in the past six days, though not all are confirmed homicides.