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Jihad Watters

Death by Force

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Jihad Watters, a 25-year-old African-American man, was killed on May 20, 2010, in what was a brazen daylight shooting in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. A father who had been confined to a wheelchair following a previous shooting two years prior, Watters was on the front porch of a home on Washington Street, preparing to light a grill for his mother's birthday celebration. The attack occurred at approximately 4:30 p.m., a time when the streets would have been busy, yet the perpetrator man ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Jihad Watters

    March 28, 2022

    Male

    African-American / Black

    Boston

    MA

    2010-05-20

    2010-05-20

    25

    Jihad

    Watters

    11/07/2025


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