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James Mathis Easton

Case from Minneapolis, MN dated Feb 07, 2025

Victim Details

James Mathis Easton

Male

Black / African American

Minneapolis

MN

2025-02-07

23

James

Mathis Easton

06/27/2026

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In the early morning hours of February 7, 2025, the life of 23-year-old Jalen Mathis Easton, a Black male from Brooklyn Park, was tragically cut short in a Minneapolis residence. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner later confirmed that Easton died from multiple gunshot wounds in what was ruled a homicide. The fatal incident unfolded just before 2 a.m. inside a home on the 2500 block of 26th Avenue North.

According to preliminary information from law enforcement, a spray of bullets was fi ...
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