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Melvin White

Case from Chester, PA dated Jul 20, 1974

Victim Details

Melvin White

Male

Chester

PA

1974-07-20

40

Melvin

White

06/25/2026

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Melvin White, a 40-year-old male from Chester, Pennsylvania, died on July 20, 1974, after being lost to gun violence in Chester. The available online records place his death in the city and identify it as a fatal shooting, with no ethnicity or race information located in the online sources reviewed.

The surviving online information is sparse, but it points to White’s death being connected to a Chester shooting incident described in an online-linked news clipping as a man going on a shoo ...
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