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Gloria Howard

Case from Baton Rouge, LA dated May 21, 2006

Victim Details

Gloria Howard

Female

Black / African American

Baton Rouge

LA

2006-5-21

72

Gloria

Howard

06/22/2026

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Gloria Howard, 72, a Black woman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was killed on the morning of May 21, 2006, in a burst of violence that turned a small church service into a crime scene. She and her husband, Leonard Howard, were at the Ministry of Jesus Christ church on Dallas Drive when a man walked in carrying the weight of a collapsing marriage and a grudge that had been building for months. The gathering was intimate, with only a handful of adults and children inside, and the calm of worship mad ...
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  • Gloria Howard Obituary (2006) - Baton Rouge
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