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Daniel Dan Dowd

Case from Greenfield, MA dated Feb 08, 2017

Victim Details

Daniel Dan Dowd

Male

White / Caucasian

Greenfield

MA

2017-02-08

63

Daniel

Dan Dowd

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Daniel “Dan” Dowd, a 63-year-old White male from Greenfield, Massachusetts, died on February 8, 2017. Obituaries note he was born in Holyoke, graduated from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and was a disabled U.S. Navy veteran who served at Guantánamo Bay; family and friends remembered him for his love of music, poetry, and laughter.

On the morning of his death, police responded to a report from a drug treatment facility on Federal Street in Greenfield. Local reporting ide ...
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  • masslive.com: Greenfield police investigate veteran's apparent suicide by gun in lobby of Federal Street drug treatment center
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