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Mark DeShields

Case from Chester, PA dated Jan 27, 2012

Victim Details

Mark DeShields

Male

Chester

PA

2012-01-27

29

Mark

DeShields

06/24/2026

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Mark Anthony DeShields, a 29-year-old male Air Force veteran from West Philadelphia, was killed in Chester, Pennsylvania, on January 27, 2012, during the dark, quiet hours before sunrise. He was staying at MinSec, a halfway house in the 200 block of East 12th Street, and by all public accounts, he was nearing the end of his court-ordered sentence there. That morning, he left the facility around 4:30 a.m. for a simple and loving reason: he was taking his wife to work.

He had only traveled ...
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