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Daquan Spencer

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Aug 21, 2016

Victim Details

Daquan Spencer

Male

Brooklyn

NY

2016-08-21

30

Daquan

Spencer

07/28/2026

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In the early morning hours of August 21, 2016, a celebration of life turned into a scene of senseless violence in Brooklyn's Scarangella Park, leaving 30-year-old Daquan Spencer dead. Spencer, a male resident of Brooklyn, had been at the park for a party and an anti-gun violence event, having earlier celebrated his own son's third birthday. The tragic irony of the setting underscored the brutality of what was to unfold. At approximately 1:30 a.m., as the event continued, Spencer was approached b ...
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  • NEWS10 ABC: 2 killed in separate NYC shootings
  • ABC7 New York: Man fatally shot while attending party inside park in Brooklyn
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