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Kemi Bacon

Case from Memphis, TN dated Sep 02, 2019

Victim Details

Kemi Bacon

Female

Black / African American

Memphis

TN

2019-09-02

17

Kemi

Bacon

07/11/2026

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In the early hours of September 2, 2019, in Memphis, Tennessee, the life of 17-year-old Kemi Bacon was tragically cut short. The young Black female was a passenger in a Pontiac G6 at a Marathon gas station on South Perkins when a fateful sequence of events began to unfold. One of the juveniles in the car with Kemi attempted to steal a white Infiniti that had been left running and unattended.

A 24-year-old man named Lakendrick Bunting, who was a customer at the gas station, witnessed the a ...
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  • Teen killed after man chases down, shoots at would-be car thieves, police say
  • WREG.com: Man charged with murder after Parkway Village gas station shooting, pursuit
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