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Maurice Wide

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated May 23, 2016

Victim Details

Maurice Wide

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Philadelphia

PA

2016-05-23

2016-05-23

25

Maurice

Wide

07/12/2026


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Maurice Wide, a 25-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died on May 23, 2016, after being shot in Philadelphia. The available online record of his death is brief, leaving behind only the stark outline of a young man’s life ending violently in a city that was already struggling with persistent gun violence that year.

The public details do not provide a fuller scene of what happened before the shooting, whether Maurice was targeted, whether there was an argument or confron ...
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