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Kennda Jr. Watkins

Case from Nashville, TN dated Sep 14, 2017

Victim Details

Kennda Jr. Watkins

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Nashville

TN

2017-09-14

2017-09-14

17

Kennda Jr.

Watkins

07/05/2026

1


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In the late summer evening of September 14, 2017, in East Nashville, Tennessee, the life of 17-year-old Kennda Javon Watkins, Jr. was tragically cut short. Just a couple of weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday, the young man was found in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Joseph Avenue with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Metro Police responded to the scene around 8:30 p.m., where he was pronounced dead.

Witnesses at the scene described two Black males, both armed with pistols, ...
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