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Dawn Yvette Brooks

Case from Lanham, MD dated Aug 06, 2010

Victim Details

Dawn Yvette Brooks

Female

Black / African American

Lanham

MD

2010-08-06

38

Dawn

Yvette Brooks

06/24/2026

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In the summer of 2010, a horrific crime unfolded in Lanham, Maryland, claiming the lives of four people, including 38-year-old Dawn Yvette Brooks. On August 6th, Brooks, her two young children, 4-year-old Shakur Sylvester Sikyala and 3-year-old Shayla Shante Sikyala, and their paternal aunt, 41-year-old Mwasiti Sikyala, were found shot to death. The female victim's life was cut short in what police would later describe as an execution-style shooting.

The discovery was made in a second-flo ...
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