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Mario Culver

Case from Atlanta, GA dated Dec 22, 2024

Victim Details

Mario Culver

Male

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

2024-12-22

36

Mario

Culver

07/10/2026

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In the early morning hours of December 22, 2024, the life of 36-year-old Mario Dante Culver, a Black male from Lithonia, Georgia, was tragically cut short. Culver was fatally shot in Ellenwood, a community in DeKalb County. The grim discovery of his body was made later that morning, just after 7:20 a.m., when Atlanta fire crews responded to a vehicle fire in a field off of Wadley Street in northwest Atlanta. After extinguishing the flames that had engulfed the SUV, firefighters found Culver's re ...
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  • ajc: Person found dead inside burning vehicle in NW Atlanta was shot, police say
  • ajc: Atlanta’s 2024 homicide victims
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