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Marquita Smith

Case from Wilmington, DE dated Feb 07, 2005

Victim Details

Marquita Smith

December 7, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Wilmington

DE

2005-02-07

19

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Marquita

Smith

07/30/2026


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Marquita LaShone Smith, a 19-year-old Black / African American female, died suddenly on Monday, February 7, 2005, in Wilmington, Delaware. She had been born in Salem, New Jersey, on September 25, 1985, and had moved to Wilmington about nine years before her death. Her obituary remembered her as the daughter of Marvetta Smith, a graduate of Christiana High School’s class of 2003, a basketball player, a student at Delaware Tech, and a member of First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Glassboro, Ne ...
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  • Marquita SMITH Obituary (2005) - Wilmington, DE - The News Journal
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