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Gary Peals

Case from Louisville, KY dated Apr 07, 2009

Victim Details

Gary Peals

December 21, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Louisville

KY

2009-04-07

2009-04-07

41

Gary

Peals

07/05/2026


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In the spring of 2009, the life of 41-year-old Gary Peals, a Black male, was abruptly ended in a violent encounter on his own doorstep in Louisville, Kentucky. On the evening of April 7th, a knock at his Lentz Avenue home prompted Peals to open the door, only to be met by a man concealed by a ski mask and armed with a shotgun. A single blast to the abdomen would prove fatal.

Inside the home at the time of the shooting were Peals' two youngest daughters, aged just three and four. They were ...
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