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Robert Whitt

Case from Detroit, MI dated Aug 03, 2019

Victim Details

Robert Whitt

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2019-08-03

36

Robert

Whitt

06/27/2026

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On August 3, 2019, the life of Robert Dwight Whitt ended violently in Detroit, Michigan. Whitt was a 36-year-old Black man, remembered in online memorial tributes as someone whose death left a lingering ache for the people who loved him.

The public trail of details is thin, the kind of silence that often follows a sudden killing: a date, a city, a name—and then the rest filled in by grief and unanswered questions. A funeral-home memorial page records his birth on September 3, 1982, and ...
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  • Detroit News: Detroit man, 32, charged in fatal shooting during 'altercation'
  • Robert Whitt, age 36 - National Gun Violence Memorial

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