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Calvin R. Shafer was a 29-year-old man from Knoxville, Tennessee, whose last morning began like an ordinary Friday and ended in a quiet stretch of Ball Camp Pike, where he was found lying in the roadway on October 7, 1983. He had been shot once at the base of the neck and once in the head, wounds so severe that the scene should have been wordless—yet he was still conscious when help arrived. In those fleeting moments, he reportedly said he knew who had shot him, but he never gave the name. ...Read More
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Victim Details

Calvin R. Shafer

Male

Knoxville

TN

1983-10-07

29

Calvin

Shafer

01/04/2026