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Derrick Dee Harris

Case from Opelika, AL dated Nov 14, 2004

Victim Details

Derrick Dee Harris

Male

Black / African American

Opelika

AL

2004-11-14

32

Derrick

Dee Harris

Yes

06/27/2026

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In the fading light of a November evening in Opelika, Alabama, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of the Pinehurst Villa Apartments, leaving a young man dead and a community in shock. The victim, 32-year-old Derrick Landra 'Dee' Harris, was found riddled with bullets in a hallway of the apartment complex where he had been staying with his girlfriend. The shooting, which occurred on November 14, 2004, marked a tragic end to a life and the beginning of a complex homicide investigation that wou ...
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