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Bionka Lyons

Case from Detroit, MI dated Aug 24, 2016

Victim Details

Bionka Lyons

March 28, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2016-08-24

2016-08-24

21

Bionka

Lyons

08/02/2026

1


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Pregnant woman, Bionka Lyons, shot and killed in Detroit

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On a late Wednesday evening in Detroit, Michigan, the life of 21-year-old Bionka Lyons was tragically cut short. At approximately 11 p.m. on August 24, 2016, Lyons, a female employee of the U.S. Postal Service, was gunned down outside her parents' home on Crocuslawn Street. She was seven months pregnant with her first child, a boy she planned to name Carter.

The young woman had just gotten out of her car when an assailant ran up to her and opened fire. Her parents, who were inside their h ...
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