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Samuel Johnson

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Oct 17, 2016

Victim Details

Samuel Johnson

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Philadelphia

PA

2016-10-17

2016-10-17

30

Samuel

Johnson

07/05/2026


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In the quiet darkness of a North Philadelphia corner, the life of 16-year-old Calvin 'C.J.' Johnson IV was tragically cut short on the night of June 9, 2023. A sophomore at Sayre High School, he was a young man who split his time between his mother's home in Drexel Hill and his father's in South Jersey and West Philadelphia. That evening, he and three friends found themselves stranded and trying to get a ride home after an Airbnb party they had attended was abruptly ended by a fight.

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