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Carlos Diaz Cotto

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Nov 07, 2007

Victim Details

Carlos Diaz Cotto

March 28, 2022

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Philadelphia

PA

2007-11-07

2007-11-07

44

Carlos Diaz

Cotto

07/10/2026


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Carlos Diaz Cotto, a 44-year-old Hispanic/Latino male from Philadelphia, was killed on November 7, 2007, after police were called to the 400 block of West Spencer Street in the city’s Olney section. Officers found him suffering from a gunshot wound to the back, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing was described as happening during a robbery after three masked men entered the location, which some reporting described as a home and other reporting described as a grocery store. Cot ...
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