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Gabriel Townsend

Case from Yazoo-city, MS dated Feb 06, 2017

Victim Details

Gabriel Townsend

Male

Black / African American

Yazoo-city

MS

2017-02-06

35

Gabriel

Townsend

06/29/2026

Case Description

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In the early hours of February 6, 2017, a post-Super Bowl gathering at Club 66 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, turned deadly, leaving 35-year-old Gabriel Townsend and three other men dead. The violence erupted from a dispute involving a woman who was reportedly leaving the nightclub with Townsend. This act seemingly provoked the anger of another man, leading to a tragic sequence of events.

As Townsend sat in his car, preparing to give the woman a ride home, he was fatally shot. The gunman the ...
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  • Four killed at nightclub; suspect charged with capital murder
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    Hello everyone. I've been revisiting the Club 66 tragedy and looked into something that caught my at... ...Read More
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