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Sharmaine Shardea Carter

Case from Lexington, KY dated Oct 16, 2019

Victim Details

Sharmaine Shardea Carter

Female

Black / African American

Lexington

KY

2019-10-16

25

Sharmaine

Shardea Carter

07/03/2026

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In the autumn of 2019, the life of 25-year-old Sharmaine Shardea Carter was tragically cut short in a Lexington, Kentucky, apartment. On the morning of October 16th, police received an anonymous tip about a potential shooting, leading them to the Crystal Gardens Apartments on Alexandria Drive. Inside a second-floor unit, they made a grim discovery: the bodies of Sharmaine and 24-year-old Marquis Dorell Harris. Both had been fatally shot.

Investigators determined that Sharmaine and Marquis ...
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  • Coroner identifies two people killed in Lexington apartment
  • Sharmaine Shardea Carter, age 25 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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