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Kennedy LaShae Hobbs

Case from Jackson, MS dated Jun 01, 2021

Victim Details

Kennedy LaShae Hobbs

Female

Black / African American

Jackson

MS

2021-06-01

18

Kennedy

LaShae Hobbs

07/10/2026

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On a day that should have been filled with joyous celebration and hopeful anticipation for the future, 18-year-old Kennedy LaShae Hobbs, a Black female, met a tragic and untimely end. On June 1, 2021, just hours after proudly walking across the stage to receive her high school diploma from Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi, Hobbs was shot and killed. The promising young entrepreneur, who had already started her own waxing business, was gunned down at a Texaco gas station on Medgar Evers ...
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  • NBC News: Mississippi teen fatally shot hours after graduation
  • WJTV: Jackson teen killed in shooting on Medgar Evers Boulevard
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