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Wilson Williams Jr

Case from Washington, DC dated May 19, 1988

Victim Details

Wilson Williams Jr

January 3, 2023

Male

Washington

DC

1988-05-19

1988-05-19

Wilson

Williams Jr

07/16/2026


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Wilson Osborn Williams Jr was a male victim of a still-unsolved shooting in Washington, D.C., whose death in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 19, 1988, continues to linger as an unanswered question in the city’s history. In the dark just after midnight, at about 12:19 a.m., gunfire on the 5000 block of Drake Place SE left him mortally wounded, and responding authorities soon documented the case as a homicide.

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