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Kimani Williams

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Jun 27, 2017

Victim Details

Kii Williams

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

2017-06-27

2017-06-27

16

Kimani

Williams

06/23/2026

1


Area Body Found:

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Kimani Williams, a 16-year-old Black male from New Orleans, Louisiana, was killed on June 27, 2017, in a shooting that unfolded near the 3100 block of Paris Avenue. In the hours after the gunfire, what remained was a stunned neighborhood and a family suddenly forced into the kind of grief that doesn’t feel real at first—until it does, in every quiet moment that follows.

Investigators with the New Orleans Police Department treated the case as a homicide and pushed forward looking for ...
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    I've been thinking a lot about the systemic issues that contributed to Kimani Willi... ...Read More
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