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Marshal Josie Lamar Wells

Case from Baton-rouge, LA dated Mar 10, 2015

Victim Details

Marshal Josie Lamar Wells

Male

Black / African American

Baton-rouge

LA

2015-03-10

27

Marshal

Josie Lamar Wells

07/11/2026

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In the line of duty on March 10, 2015, Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Lamar Wells, a 27-year-old male, was shot and killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Wells was part of a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force that had tracked a double-murder suspect to the Elm Grove Motel. The task force was attempting to serve an arrest warrant on the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Jamie D. Croom. Croom was wanted for the murders of a brother and sister outside a nightclub in Pointe Coupee Parish.

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