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Keyan Watkins

Case from New-orleans, LA dated Apr 18, 2018

Victim Details

Keyan Watkins

Male

Black / African American

New-orleans

LA

2018-04-18

33

Keyan

Watkins

07/07/2026

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Keyan Demetrius Watkins, a 34-year-old Black man, died on April 18, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana, just days after a sudden burst of violence shattered an otherwise ordinary stretch of life. Born December 7, 1983, Watkins was gone at 34, leaving family and friends to gather for a memorial weeks later with the kind of grief that feels unreal, as if the world has made a clerical error and might still fix it.

In the early morning hours of April 15, police and paramedics rushed into the Br ...
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  • NOLA.com: 3 victims of separate fatal shootings named by Orleans Parish Coroner
  • NOLA.com: Man shot to death on Central City neutral ground: NOPD
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