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Kourtney Young

Case from Chicago, IL dated May 08, 2016

Victim Details

Kourtney L Young

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Chicago

IL

2016-05-08

2016-05-08

21

Kourtney

Young

08/01/2026

1


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Kourtney Young was a 21-year-old Black man from Chicago whose life ended on a quiet Sunday morning, May 8, 2016, when gunfire broke the stillness of Mother's Day weekend on the city's South Side. That morning, around 8:45 a.m., shots rang out along the 7600 block of South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor area, a residential stretch of brick buildings and tree-lined streets that sits within a cluster of neighborhoods often grouped together as Chatham and Greater Grand Crossing. Neighbors awoke to ...
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