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Shandel Adams

Case from Chicago, IL dated Sep 30, 2014

Victim Details

Shandel Adams

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Chicago

IL

2014-09-30

2014/09/30

25

Shandel

Adams

07/26/2026


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Black male, age 25. In the early hours of Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Shandel Adams was found on the sidewalk in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, in the 600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue.
Police responding around 3:20 a.m. discovered the 25 year old with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 4:17 a.m.
Records connected him to the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street. The killing unfolded on a quiet residential stretch before dawn ...
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  • Man dead in West Side shooting - Chicago Sun-Times
  • Shandel Adams, age 25 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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