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Diren Dede

Case from Missoula, MT dated Apr 27, 2014

Victim Details

Diren Dede

Male

White / Caucasian

Missoula

MT

2014-04-27

17

Diren

Dede

Yes

06/24/2026

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In the quiet, early hours of April 27, 2014, in Missoula, Montana, the life of a 17-year-old White/Caucasian male named Diren Dede was tragically cut short. Dede, a German exchange student attending Big Sky High School, was unarmed when he entered the garage of a local resident, Markus Kaarma. Lured by what prosecutors would later describe as a deliberate trap, Dede was met with a volley of gunfire from Kaarma's shotgun. The incident, which would attract international attention, was the culminat ...
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