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Paul Taylor

Case from Decatur, GA dated Apr 14, 2013

Victim Details

Paul Taylor

July 21, 2022

Male

Decatur

GA

2013-04-14

68

Paul

Taylor

07/18/2026


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A 68 year old man is killed by an intruder when he returns home with a friend
Paul Taylor, a 68-year-old man, was killed on April 14, 2013, after what investigators said appeared to be a burglary turned deadly at his home on the 1500 block of Columbia Drive in unincorporated Decatur. Police said Taylor had returned to the property with a friend at about 11:45 that Sunday morning. Instead of coming back to an ordinary day, he seemed to have walked straight into violence. Authorities said he was shot after apparently interrupting a break-in at the house, a place where he wa ...
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