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Rita Lloyd

Case from New-york, NY dated Jan 27, 1973

Victim Details

Rita Lloyd

Female

Black / African American

New-york

NY

1973-01-27

16

Rita

Lloyd

07/18/2026

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On January 27, 1973, a brief street encounter in New York City turned into a fatal moment that would leave more questions than closure. Rita Lloyd was in public with a friend when police stopped them, and within moments gunfire ended her life.

Lloyd was a 16-year-old Black girl. Accounts of what happened next hinge on two competing versions of the same instant: a plainclothes New York City police officer, identified in later retellings as Robert Milano, said the teenagers aimed a sawed-o ...
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  • List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States - Wikipedia
  • ‘Defensive’ Police Shots Kill a Girl, 16 (Published 1973)
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