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Case Description
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Keith L. Bender Jr., a 35-year-old male Army veteran, was involved in a fatal altercation in the early morning hours of April 11, 2006, at the C.C.C. nightclub on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan. A dispute over a game of pool escalated into a physical fight between Bender and Deshaun Holton, the rapper known as Proof. The confrontation turned violent when Holton produced a handgun, pistol-whipped Bender, and then shot him in the head. Bender was transported to St. John Hospital and Medical Cent ...Read More
Victim Details

Keith L. Bender, Jr.

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2006-04-11

35

Keith

L. Bender Jr.

12/25/2025