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Kenneth Dean

Case from Laurel, MS dated Jun 15, 2025

Victim Details

Kenneth Dean

Male

Black / African American

Laurel

MS

2025-06-15

35

Kenneth

Dean

07/23/2026

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Kenneth Dean, a 35-year-old Black male, was shot and killed on June 15, 2025, in a fatal shooting on Johnson Circle in Laurel, Mississippi. News reports and memorial listings describe the incident simply but starkly: he was “lost to gun violence” that Sunday, his life ended in the same city where he had grown up and built his closest relationships.

In life, he was known to those around him as “Kent Kent,” a nickname that appears both in his obituary and on online memorials that r ...
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  • Laurel Leader-Call: LPD arrests 3 after separate shootings; uncle murdered, nephew shot
  • https://www.wdam.com: 2 Laurel men charged with murder in Johnson Circle shooting
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