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Jeffrey Roork

Case from Manhattan, NY dated Jun 19, 1995

Victim Details

Jeffrey Roork

Male

Manhattan

NY

1995-06-19

26

Jeffrey

Roork

07/27/2026

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Jeffrey Roork was a 26-year-old man who went to work in Manhattan on June 19, 1995, expecting an ordinary day in a midtown neighborhood of offices, elevators, and quick lunches—unaware that a man already deep into a multiday killing spree was moving north through the city with a gun and a hunger for cash, control, and escape.

That afternoon, the gunman—identified by authorities as Darnell Collins, also known as Mwanza Atiba Kamau—closed in on a parking lot near West 26th Street and ...
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