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Michael Lawson

Case from Atlanta, GA dated May 20, 2015

Victim Details

Michael Lawson

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

2015-05-20

2015-05-20

47

Michael

Lawson

06/29/2026


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Michael Lawson, a 47-year-old Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, is remembered online more through the gaps in the public record than through the kind of full narrative that usually follows a high-profile killing. The publicly accessible Atlanta homicide resources that are easiest to verify today do not seem to contain a detailed case profile for him: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s homicide tracker begins in 2017, and the Atlanta Police Department’s public cold-homicide page highlighted ol ...
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