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Debra White

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Jan 20, 2020

Victim Details

Debra White

Female

Black / African American

Brooklyn

NY

2020-01-20

63

Debra

White

07/17/2026

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In a tragic act of domestic violence, 63-year-old Debra White, a female, was killed in her Brooklyn, New York apartment. On the evening of Monday, January 20, 2020, police responded to a call from the Sumner Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where they discovered White unconscious with a gunshot wound to her face. Emergency services transported her to Woodhull Hospital, but she was pronounced dead.

The initial investigation quickly identified a suspect close to home. White's ...
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  • New York Post: Brooklyn man charged with fatally shooting his mom
  • New York Post: Man guns down his mother in Brooklyn housing project, cops say
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    I’ve been thinking a lot about Debra’s involvement with her church and how much that part of her... ...Read More
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