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Samuel Davis

Case from Jackson, MS dated Mar 06, 2016

Victim Details

Samuel Davis

Male

Black / African American

Jackson

MS

2016-03-06

21

Samuel

Davis

07/09/2026

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On Sunday evening, March 6, 2016, 21-year-old Samuel Davis, a Black man from Jackson, Mississippi, was on Fontaine Avenue near the intersection with Eminence Row in the Virden Addition as a weekend of violence in the city came to a head. Around 5:43 p.m., police later said, an argument that had been brewing along the street escalated into a confrontation involving multiple people, several of them armed, in the middle of a residential block not far from Lake Hico.

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