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Jauquavous Whitehead

Case from Greenwood, MS dated Jan 31, 2018

Victim Details

Jauquavous Whitehead

Male

Black / African American

Greenwood

MS

2018-01-31

15

Jauquavous

Whitehead

07/01/2026

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Jauquavous Whitehead, a 15-year-old Black male, found his life tragically cut short on the evening of January 31, 2018, in Greenwood, Mississippi. A sophomore at Amanda Elzy High School, he was described as a quiet and sweet young man. On that fateful night, Whitehead was in the wrong place at the wrong time, an innocent bystander caught in the violent eruption of a drug-related turf war. The incident unfolded around 8:30 p.m. outside the Brazil Homes office on Browning Road, where gunfire erupt ...
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  • WDSU: Mississippi teenager caught in drug-related turf war, shot to death was innocent bystander
  • Jauquavous Whitehead, age 15 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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