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Nakia Pyatt

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Jan 16, 2016

Victim Details

Nakia Pyatt

March 28, 2022

Male

African-American / Black

Philadelphia

PA

2016-01-16

40

Nakia

Pyatt

06/23/2026


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Nakia Pyatt, a 40-year-old Philadelphia resident, was tragically killed on January 16, 2016, during a home invasion in the Frankford neighborhood. Police were called to his residence on the 4600 block of Penn Street at around 10 a.m., where they found him in his living room with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was transported to Temple University Hospital, but he died later that night.

The front door of his home had been forcibly opened, indicating that the motive behind the homicide w ...
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