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Kenneth Grier

Case from Denver, CO dated Jun 30, 1979

Victim Details

Kenneth Grier

Male

Black / African American

Denver

CO

1979-06-30

32

Kenneth

Grier

07/19/2026

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Kenneth Grier, 32, male, Black, spent the early minutes of June 30, 1979 at the King Cole Bar on 1082 Broadway in Denver, where a disturbance flared among multiple patrons. In the confusion, gunshots exploded; Grier was struck and rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds that same day.

Detectives opened a homicide investigation centered on the crowded nightlife scene along Broadway, working to piece together who fired amid the fray and why the confrontation escalated to gu ...
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