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Sontonio Brown

Case from Memphis, TN dated Sep 01, 2015

Victim Details

Sontonio Brown

Male

Black / African American

Memphis

TN

2015-09-01

25

Sontonio

Brown

06/22/2026

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Sontonio Brown, a 25-year-old Black man, was found down in the Whitehaven area of Memphis on September 1, 2015, after gunfire left him with a wound that would prove fatal. Officers responding to the 5400 block of Oak Bark Drive discovered him lying on the ground, the stillness of the residential street broken by the urgency of radios, flashing lights, and the scramble to save a life that was slipping away.

As the first minutes of the investigation took shape, police began treating the sce ...
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