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Laymon Baker

Case from Louisville, KY dated Jul 19, 2015

Victim Details

Laymon Baker

January 12, 2023

Male

Black / African American

Louisville

KY

2015-07-19

2015-07-19

38

Laymon

Baker

07/01/2026


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In the late hours of a Sunday night in Louisville, Kentucky, tragedy struck in the Portland neighborhood. On July 19, 2015, 38-year-old Laymon Lavelle Baker was inside a location in the 2500 block of Duncan Street when he was shot. First Division officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department responded to the scene just after 11:30 p.m. and found Baker with a gunshot wound to his leg. He was a resident of a home on the same block where the shooting occurred.

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