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Marquis Townsend

Case from Saint-louis, MO dated Jun 24, 2017

Victim Details

Marquis Townsend

Male

Black / African American

Saint-louis

MO

2017-06-24

23

Marquis

Townsend

08/03/2026

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In the warm early evening of a late June day in Saint-Louis, Missouri, a young man's life was abruptly cut short. Twenty-three-year-old Marquis Townsend, a male, was engrossed in working on a vehicle on the 3300 block of Goodfellow on Saturday, June 24, 2017. What began as a seemingly ordinary task took a tragic turn when another man arrived at the scene.

The encounter quickly escalated into a heated argument. The verbal dispute culminated in the unidentified man pulling out a firearm and ...
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  • stltoday.com: St. Louis shooting victim was working on car when argument started, gunman opened fire
  • stltoday.com: Homicide detectives called to shooting scene in Wells Goodfellow neighborhood
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