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Samuel Peters

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Aug 15, 2011

Victim Details

Samuel Peters

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

2011-08-15

2011-08-15

55

Samuel

Peters

07/09/2026

1


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Samuel Peters, 55, died in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He was a man whose life was rooted in a city that knows how to hold both joy and sorrow at once, and when word spread that he was gone, it carried the familiar weight that settles over neighborhoods when someone’s name is spoken in the past tense. In New Orleans, remembrance is rarely quiet. It lives in the stories people trade on front steps, in the way friends pause mid-sentence when they realize they’ll never get to finish a conver ...
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  • New Orleans police investigating death of 6th Ward man - NOLA.com
  • Samuel Jarvis Peters - Wikipedia
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