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Rodney Starks

Case from Memphis, TN dated May 03, 2017

Victim Details

Rodney Starks

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Memphis

TN

2017-05-03

2017-05-03

31

Rodney

Starks

No

07/12/2026

1


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Rodney Starks, a 31-year-old man from Memphis, Tennessee, was spending the early afternoon of May 3, 2017, in the city’s Medical District when the violence that would end his life unfolded. Around 2:40 p.m., Memphis police were called to the area of North Waldran and Merriwether, in the 200 block of Waldran, after reports of gunfire. Officers arrived to find a man lying in the street suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to Regional One Hospital, the trauma center that serves much of t ...
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  • Memphis police ID 7 recent homicide victims - The Commercial Appeal
  • Man Shot To Death In The Medical District | localmemphis.com
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