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Jorge Alcantar

Case from Mesa, AZ dated May 18, 2017

Victim Details

Jorge Alcantar

Male

Mesa

AZ

2017-05-18

31

Jorge

Alcantar

Yes

06/23/2026

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On the evening of May 18, 2017, Jorge Alcantar, a 31-year-old man from Mesa, Arizona, was inside a home in a neighborhood near Southern Avenue and Mesa Drive when violence shattered what should have been an ordinary Thursday night. Around 8 p.m., Mesa police were dispatched on a report of a possible shooting at a residence on East 8th Drive. When officers entered the home, they found Jorge already dead from gunshot wounds, his life cut short before emergency responders could do anything to save ...
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  • azcentral: Victims identified in separate Mesa homicides
  • Search on for suspect who shot, killed man, wounded woman
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