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Doughboy Roc (Rodney Yeargin)

Case from Detroit, MI dated Oct 09, 2017

Victim Details

Doughboy Roc (Rodney Yeargin)

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2017-10-09

29

Doughboy

Roc (Rodney Yeargin)

07/10/2026

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In the autumn of 2017, the Detroit music scene was struck by violence with the death of Rodney Yeargin, a 29-year-old male rapper professionally known as Doughboy Roc. On the afternoon of Monday, October 9th, Yeargin was sitting in his white Hyundai on the city's west side, near the intersection of Stoepel Street and Westfield Avenue. It was there that he was ambushed and shot multiple times. Police who arrived at the scene around 3:30 p.m. found him deceased, having sustained gunshot wounds to ...
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    I just keep thinking about Rodney Yeargin's young son. It's so hard to imagine what it must be like ... ...Read More
    01/01/2025
    There's something so unsettling about how Rodney Yeargin's murder happened in broad daylight, right ... ...Read More
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