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Donald Kimbrough

Case from Detroit, MI dated Dec 06, 2017

Victim Details

Donald Kimbrough

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2017-12-06

2017-12-06

71

Donald

Kimbrough

07/13/2026


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In the summer of 1972, Detroit Police Officer Donald O. Kimbrough was on patrol in plain clothes with his partner when they received a report of two men shooting at people in a parking lot near a methadone clinic at the intersection of Belmont Street and Woodward Avenue. Upon their arrival, they confronted an armed man emerging from an alley. As they engaged with the first individual, a second man seated in the driver's seat of a nearby car opened fire with a handgun, striking Officer Kimbrough ...
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