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Billy Putnam

Case from Meridian, MS dated May 11, 2014

Victim Details

Billy Putnam

Male

White / Caucasian

Meridian

MS

2014-05-11

87

Billy

Putnam

07/08/2026

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In the late afternoon of Mother's Day, May 11, 2014, H.L. 'Billy' Putnam, an 87-year-old World War II veteran, was shot and killed in his vehicle in Meridian, Mississippi. He had just purchased flowers for his wife at Vowell's Market Place on North Hills Street and was in the grocery store's parking lot when the incident occurred. The shooting appeared to be the result of a robbery.

Witnesses at the scene described seeing a young man running from the grocery store toward Shumate Road. An ...
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  • Obituary | H. "Billy" L. Putnam - Robert Barham Family Funeral Home
  • Shon Byrd sentenced in robbery of elderly man - WTOK
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