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Clifford Glover

Case from New-york, NY dated Apr 28, 1973

Victim Details

Clifford Glover

Male

Black / African American

New-york

NY

1973-04-28

10

Clifford

Glover

07/08/2026

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In the pre-dawn hours of April 28, 1973, in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York, ten-year-old Clifford Glover, a Black fourth-grader, was walking with his stepfather, Add Armstead. The two were heading to the junkyard where Armstead worked when an unmarked car carrying two plainclothes New York City police officers, Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, pulled up beside them. The officers were investigating a recent taxi robbery and believed the pair matched the suspects' descriptions. Fe ...
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