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Robert Crenshaw

Case from Albion, MI dated Jan 08, 1989

Victim Details

Robert Crenshaw

Male

Black / African American

Albion

MI

1989-01-08

27

Robert

Crenshaw

07/15/2026

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Robert Crenshaw, a 27-year-old Black man, died on January 8, 1989, in Albion, Michigan, after a shooting that left the town with more questions than answers and a family suddenly forced into mourning. In the brief public record that survives online, the death is consistently framed as gun violence in Albion, marked more by the fact of its happening than by a widely published, step-by-step account of how the night unfolded.

Not long before that winter night, Crenshaw had made a move that ...
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