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Tanya Lawrence

Case from Wading-river, NY dated Feb 15, 2015

Victim Details

Tanya Lawrence

Female

Black / African American

Wading-river

NY

2015-02-15

43

Tanya

Lawrence

07/19/2026

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In a quiet Wading River home, a domestic dispute escalated into a tragic double murder-suicide on a cold February night in 2015. Tanya Lawrence, a 43-year-old case worker, was shot and killed by her boyfriend, 44-year-old Thomas Calhoun. The violence that erupted was the culmination of a long and difficult breakup between the couple.

Arguments had been heard from the home on 12th Street from time to time after Calhoun had moved in. On that fatal Sunday night, the simmering tensions boiled ...
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  • ABC7 New York: Police: Man kills girlfriend and her daughter, then self in Wading River, Long Island, murder suicide
  • Mother, daughter killed in Wading River double murder-suicide
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