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Donald D. Averett

Case from Brockton, MA dated Apr 21, 2002

Victim Details

Donald D. Averett

Male

Brockton

MA

2002-04-21

21

Donald

D. Averett

07/11/2026

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Donald D. Averett, 21, male, was killed by gunfire in Brockton, Massachusetts, on April 21, 2002. He is memorialized online as one of the city’s young lives cut short, with his name and date fixed to that spring day when violence turned fatal. In the years since, candles and brief remembrances have marked his absence, standing in for the details that never made it into wider public view.

What followed was a long quiet in the record: no public reporting of a suspect named, no official a ...
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  • Newspapers.com: The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts on November 16, 2002 · 24
  • The Enterprise, Brockton, MA: Cracking the silence: Community mindset changing in wake of murders
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