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Deontae Yarnell

Case from Louisville, KY dated May 21, 2019

Victim Details

Deontae Yarnell

January 16, 2023

Male

Black / African American

Louisville

KY

2019-05-21

2019-05-21

25

Deontae

Yarnell

06/25/2026


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In the early morning hours of May 21, 2019, Deontae Daron Yarnell, a 25-year-old male, was shot and killed in Louisville, Kentucky. The fatal incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. near a car at the Parkway Place public housing complex, located off 13th Street and Brashear Drive. This was not the first time Yarnell had been a target of gun violence; just six months earlier, he had survived being shot four times in an incident that claimed the life of his longtime friend, Ralph Jefferies.

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