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On March 19, 1984, the body of 29-year-old Ira Adams, a Black male with a history of arrests for burglary and grand larceny, was discovered inside a parked, stolen U-Haul truck in Queens, New York. Adams had been shot to death.

The primary suspect in Adams's murder was 44-year-old James Edward Daniels, an African American male born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. Daniels had a significant criminal history, including a 1963 conviction for second-degree murder related to the death of Calvin ...Read More
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Victim Details

Ira Adams

Male

Black / African American

Queens

NY

1984-03-19

29

Ira

Adams

11/09/2025