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Michael Jay

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Jun 01, 2012

Victim Details

Michael Jay

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Philadelphia

PA

2012-06-01

2012-06-01

29

Michael

Jay

No

07/05/2026

1


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In the midst of a violent weekend in Philadelphia, a 29-year-old African-American man named Michael Jay was shot and killed on June 1, 2012. The city was in the grip of a rising tide of homicides, marking the third consecutive year of increasing rates of deadly violence. Jay's death was one of several that weekend, a grim testament to the challenges of gun violence that plagued the city.

The incident that claimed Michael Jay's life was part of a bloody period in Philadelphia's history, wi ...
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