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Ashley Coates

Case from Detroit, MI dated Aug 05, 2017

Victim Details

Ashley Coates

March 28, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2017-08-05

2017-08-05

24

Ashley

Coates

07/26/2026


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Ashley Coates was a 21-year-old African-American woman from Detroit, Michigan, whose life and future were violently taken from her on August 5, 2017. On that summer Saturday, Detroit firefighters responded to a car fire on the city’s east side, near Seneca and Lambert Streets. When the flames were extinguished, investigators discovered two bodies in the back of a silver Honda Accord: Ashley and her boyfriend, 35-year-old Rolando Douglas.

What first appeared to be a car fire soon reveal ...
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