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Desmond Johnson

Case from Baton Rouge, LA dated Oct 19, 2016

Victim Details

Desmond Johnson

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Baton Rouge

LA

2016-10-19

2016-10-19

27

Desmond

Johnson

Yes

06/30/2026


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Desmond Johnson was 27 years old, a Black man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and on the night of October 19, 2016, his life was taken by gunfire. What should have been an ordinary Wednesday ended instead with sirens, stunned silence, and the kind of grief that arrives before anyone can even understand what just happened.

That evening, shots rang out along Alaska Street, near the area around LSU. In the chaos and suddenness that follows a burst of violence, Johnson was struck and left mortal ...
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