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Robert Alston

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Aug 22, 2015

Victim Details

Robert Alston

Male

Black / African American

Philadelphia

PA

2015-08-22

19

Robert

Alston

07/16/2026

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In the late summer of 2015, a young man from Philadelphia, 19-year-old Robert Alston, lost his life in a tragic and unforeseen incident in Pittsburgh. An African American male, Alston was a passenger in a vehicle with his friend, Eietyoung Kemp, who was also 19 at the time. What was meant to be a trip to a party ended in a fatal shooting that would be described by the perpetrator as a tragic accident.

On August 22, 2015, while riding in the car, Kemp, who was in the backseat, attempted to ...
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