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Benny Hamilton

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Aug 28, 2011

Victim Details

Benny Hamilton

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

2011-08-28

2011-08-28

21

Benny

Hamilton

07/08/2026

1


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Benny Hamilton, a 21-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, died on August 28, 2011. The facts that are immediately available in the information provided are painfully simple, and sometimes that is the hardest kind of story to hold: a young life ends, and the world keeps moving even as the people who loved him have to learn how to breathe through the sudden absence.

In the days that followed his death, what rose to the surface was not a public, step-by-step explanation of what ha ...
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  • Eastern New Orleans homicide victim is identified | Crime/Police
  • Benny Hamilton Obituary (2011) - New Orleans
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