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James Rice

Case from Baltimore, MD dated Jan 18, 2012

Victim Details

James Rice

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Baltimore

MD

2012-01-18

2012-01-18

18

James

Rice

07/22/2026


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In the cold of a Baltimore winter, the life of 18-year-old James T. Rice Jr. was tragically cut short. On January 18, 2012, the young man was killed in the 4300 block of Cedargarden Road. His death was recorded as a homicide, marking another somber statistic in the city's count of lives lost to violence that year.

Details surrounding the specific circumstances of James's death remain scarce in publicly available online records. Information regarding a motive for the killing, or a detailed ...
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