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Valerie Dowden Wells

Case from Shreveport, LA dated Nov 07, 2016

Victim Details

Valerie Dowden Wells

Female

White / Caucasian

Shreveport

LA

2016-11-07

47

Valerie

Dowden Wells

06/23/2026

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Valerie Dowden Wells, a 47-year-old female, found her life tragically cut short in a violent encounter in Shreveport, Louisiana. On a Monday afternoon, while in her car in the parking lot of a McDonald's, she was shot multiple times. The man who fired the fatal shots was identified as 46-year-old Robert Gaddy, who then took his own life with the same weapon. Both Wells and Gaddy were transported to a nearby hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

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