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Charles Coleman

Case from Memphis, TN dated Jan 21, 2017

Victim Details

Charles Cole

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Memphis

TN

2017-01-21

2017-01-21

32

Charles

Coleman

06/25/2026

1


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Charles Coleman Jr., a 32-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on January 21, 2017, after gunfire tore through a Westwood neighborhood street in the middle of the afternoon. Online memorial and obituary records for the death list his name as Charles Coleman Jr. and place the loss in Memphis on that date, marking a life ended suddenly and publicly, with the kind of finality that turns an ordinary day into a before-and-after for everyone nearby.

Investigators later described th ...
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  • 4 shot, 2 killed in drive-by shooting - Action News 5
  • Charles Coleman, age 32 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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