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Michael Odoms Jr

Case from New-orleans, LA dated Feb 01, 2018

Victim Details

Michael Odoms Jr

Male

Black / African American

New-orleans

LA

2018-02-01

23

Michael

Odoms Jr

06/28/2026

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Michael Odoms Jr., a 23-year-old African American male, passed away on Thursday, February 1, 2018. A native and resident of Marrero, Louisiana, a community in the New Orleans metropolitan area, he was known to those around him through his work as a cook at the Flamingo A-Go-Go Restaurant. His life was rooted in his family, as the son of Michael Odoms Sr. and the late Shondanell Lewis, and the grandson of Ulyesses Jr. and Murdlia Odoms, and Rudolph and Phyllis Pelrean.

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