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Drake Donahue

Case from New-orleans, LA dated Oct 07, 2019

Victim Details

Drake Donahue

Male

Black / African American

New-orleans

LA

2019-10-07

20

Drake

Donahue

07/04/2026

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In the early morning hours of September 29, 2019, in the Little Woods section of New Orleans East, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet on Anne Marie Court. Twenty-year-old Drake Donahue, a male, was sitting in a vehicle with another person at approximately 4:33 a.m. when two unidentified men, their faces obscured by masks and hands by gloves, emerged from the backyard of a nearby residence and opened fire on the car.

The hail of bullets struck Donahue multiple times. While the other oc ...
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