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Finnegan Daly

Case from Fort Collins, CO dated Jan 14, 2018

Victim Details

Finnegan Daly

Male

White / Caucasian

Fort Collins

CO

2018-01-14

21

Finnegan

Daly

06/23/2026

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In the winter of 2018, just two days before the start of his spring semester at Colorado State University, 21-year-old Finnegan Daly's promising future was tragically cut short. On January 14, the senior with a double major in Business and Political Science died from a gunshot wound in the off-campus house he shared with roommates in Fort Collins. Initially, his death was ruled an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound by the police, a conclusion that brought a swift, though unsettling, closur ...
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  • SOURCE: In memory: Finnegan Daly
  • The Colorado Sun: A Snapchat leads police to reopen investigation of CSU student’s death and raises questions about gun violence
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