Christopher Lamont Bender

Death by Force

In the early morning hours of November 3, 1991, Christopher Lamont Bender, a 19-year-old Black / African American male R&B singer with a promising career, was shot and killed in his hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts. He was sitting in his blue Mercedes-Benz outside the Crescent Court housing project, where his mother lived, with his 17-year-old cousin, Jesse Starks, in the passenger seat. The two were talking and smoking marijuana when they were ambushed.

At approximately 2:17 a.m., thr ...Read More

AP NEWS: Promising 19-Year-Old Singer, Recording Artist, Killed On Return Home

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