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Lamont Watkins

Case from Washington, DC dated Aug 07, 2005

Victim Details

Lamont Watkins

January 10, 2023

Male

Washington

DC

2005-08-07

2005-08-07

21

Lamont

Watkins

Yes

06/23/2026


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In the early morning hours of August 7, 2005, a promising life was cut short in a Washington, D.C. alley. Lamont Watkins, a 21-year-old male known to some by the nickname 'ATL,' was found shot to death at approximately 2:50 a.m. behind the 3700 block of 7th Street, NE in the Brookland neighborhood. His death marked the city's 115th homicide of that year.

Watkins was a gifted athlete, a wrestling dynamo whose former high school coach believed he had the potential to make the U.S. Olympic t ...
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  • Lamont Watkins - Homicide Victim - Metropolitan Police Department
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