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Antwan James

Case from Lancaster, SC dated Dec 21, 2017

Victim Details

Antwan James

Male

Black / African American

Lancaster

SC

2017-12-21

34

Antwan

James

06/23/2026

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In the quiet town of Lancaster, South Carolina, the life of 34-year-old Antwan James, a male with a newborn child, was cut short on a grim Thursday night in December. The tragic events unfolded when James, in the company of two women, was leaving a residence on Faile Street. An argument that had transpired earlier in the evening with a man identified as Dequavis Laquail Blackmon, who was the ex-boyfriend of one of the women, foreshadowed the violence to come. James had reportedly stepped in to d ...
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