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Dessie Seaton

Case from Knoxville, TN dated Jan 24, 2020

Victim Details

Dessie Seaton

January 17, 2023

Male

Black / African American

Knoxville

TN

2020-01-24

26

Dessie

Seaton

07/04/2026


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In the early hours of January 24, 2020, the Knoxville Police Department responded to a call of a shooting at the Southland Square Apartments on Sevier Avenue. Inside one of the units, they discovered the body of Dessie Lewis Seaton IV, a 26-year-old Black male, in the kitchen. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Seaton had been residing in Knoxville at the time of his death. An investigation determined that he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.

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