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Kristen Lartey

Case from Boston, MA dated Aug 12, 2012

Victim Details

Kristen Lartey

October 11, 2022

Female

African-American / Black

Boston

MA

2012-08-12

2012-08-12

22

Kristen

Lartey

07/04/2026


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On the evening of August 12, 2012, Kristen Lartey, a 22-year-old African-American woman from Boston, Massachusetts, was fatally shot while sitting in a parked car on Harlem Street in the Dorchester neighborhood. Lartey, who was from Hyde Park, had recently graduated from St. John's University in New York. She and her friends were attacked at approximately 9:30 p.m. by an unknown gunman who opened fire on their vehicle.

Lartey was not the only victim of this tragic event. Two other women, ...
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  • 2nd Dorchester Shooting Victim To Be Laid To Rest | WBUR News
  • Four years later, families of young women killed in Boston still grieve
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