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Dennard Darren Davis

Case from Knoxville, TN dated May 18, 2024

Victim Details

Dennard Darren Davis

Male

Black / African American

Knoxville

TN

2024-05-18

37

Dennard

Darren Davis

Yes

07/02/2026

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In the early hours of a Saturday morning in Knoxville, Tennessee, a sequence of violent events unfolded, leaving two men dead, one of whom was 37-year-old Dennard Darren Davis. On May 18, 2024, the Knoxville Police Department was first called to Anderson Automotive and Towing on Cooper Street around 9 a.m. to investigate a shooting. At the scene, they discovered Claude 'Sampson' E. Johnson Jr., 55, with at least one gunshot wound. Johnson was transported to the UT Medical Center, where he was pr ...
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