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Alex Benitez

Case from Oklahoma City, OK dated Jul 07, 2016

Victim Details

Alex Benitez

March 28, 2022

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Oklahoma City

OK

2016-07-07

2016-07-07

23

Alex

Benitez

07/06/2026

1


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In the summer of 2016, a young man's life was tragically cut short in Oklahoma City. Twenty-three-year-old Alejandro Sebastian 'Alex' Benitez-Jaimes was returning home from work on the evening of July 7th when he was accosted in the breezeway of his second-story apartment at the Putnam Green complex. In a senseless act of violence, he was shot and killed during what investigators believe was a robbery. The startling sound, which some witnesses dismissed as fireworks, marked the city's 38th homic ...
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