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Christopher Porter

Case from Minneapolis, MN dated Jul 04, 2016

Victim Details

Christopher Porter

Male

Black / African American

Minneapolis

MN

2016-07-04

38

Christopher

Porter

06/26/2026

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On a summer afternoon on the Fourth of July in 2016, the life of 38-year-old Christopher Porter, a Black/African American male, was tragically cut short in a shocking act of violence at his own home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The friendly atmosphere of a holiday was shattered when police were called to Porter's residence on Morgan Avenue North in the afternoon, where they discovered him lying in his front yard with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the Hennepin County Medical Center, but his inj ...
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