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Danzel Gaines

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Feb 06, 2010

Victim Details

Danzel Gaines

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

2010-02-06

2010-02-06

23

Danzel

Gaines

07/07/2026


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Danzel Gaines was a 23-year-old African American/Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose life ended in violence on February 6, 2010. In the city that raised him, his story was cut short by gunfire, leaving behind the kind of stunned silence that follows a sudden loss, when the world keeps moving but the people who loved him feel time break into a before and an after.

That night, he was shot in the Algiers area, reported near the 1700 block of Hero Boulevard. The details available are ...
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