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Christopher Cotton

Case from Buffalo, NY dated Jan 19, 2013

Victim Details

Christopher Cotton

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Buffalo

NY

2013-01-19

2013-01-19

42

Christopher

Cotton

07/06/2026


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In the early hours of a Saturday morning in Buffalo, New York, the city recorded its first homicide of the year. Just after 1 a.m. on January 19, 2013, 42-year-old Christopher Cotton, a male pharmaceutical technician and father of three, was found deceased in the driver's seat of a vehicle near the intersection of Kensington Avenue and Castle Place. He had been killed by gunfire. The doors to the car were locked, and all the windows were up when his body was discovered.

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