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Norman Wallace

Case from Cleveland, OH dated May 09, 2003

Victim Details

Norman Wallace

Male

Black / African American

Cleveland

OH

2003-05-09

30

Norman

Wallace

06/22/2026

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Norman Wallace, a 30-year-old African American male, was tragically killed on May 9, 2003, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Wallace was a first-year MBA student from Youngstown, Ohio. He was shot and killed by Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old former graduate student of the university, in the Peter B. Lewis Building.

The incident began when Halder, dressed in camouflage and armed with a semi-automatic rifle, entered the building and started shooting indiscriminately. W ...
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