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Leon Wauneka

Case from Albuquerque, NM dated May 31, 2017

Victim Details

Leon Wauneka

March 28, 2022

Male

Unknown

Albuquerque

NM

2017-05-31

2017-05-31

Leon

Wauneka

06/24/2026


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Leon J. Wauneka, 31, male, was found deceased in Albuquerque at the end of May 2017, his life cut short far from where he was born in Shiprock. Public records and an obituary note that he “passed from this life” in Albuquerque on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, placing the tragedy in the city’s difficult year for violent crime. The few details that reached the public draw a narrow outline: a young man, 31 years old, gone before summer began.

In the months and years that followed, open sourc ...
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  • Leon Wauneka Obituary (1985 - 2017) - Farmington Daily Times
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