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Chalalai Chaihirunkarn

Case from Pittsburgh, PA dated Jan 29, 2015

Victim Details

Chalalai Chaihirunkarn

March 28, 2022

Female

Asian / Pacific Islander

Pittsburgh

PA

2015-01-29

2015-01-29

26

Chalalai

Chaihirunkarn

07/07/2026

1


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In the winter of 2015, the promising life of Chalalai Chaihirunkarn, a 26-year-old Thai female, was tragically cut short in her Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania apartment. A doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, she was discovered on Thursday, January 29th, the victim of a fatal shooting. The quiet of her residence in the Sherwood Towers on North Craig Street was broken when friends, concerned after not hearing from her for several days, requested a welfare check. Responding officers entered t ...
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