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Darnell Moody

Case from Newark, NJ dated Mar 27, 2017

Victim Details

Darnell Moody

Male

Black / African American

Newark

NJ

2017-03-27

27

Darnell

Moody

06/28/2026

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Darnell Moody was a 27-year-old Black/African American man from Newark, New Jersey, whose life ended on March 27, 2017, after a violent encounter that left a permanent absence on the streets he once called home. He is remembered in national gun-violence records as one of the many whose deaths mark Newark on the map, his name appearing with only a date and a city beside a solemn note that he was “lost to gun violence” in his hometown.

On that late-March day, Moody was found under susp ...
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  • NJ.com: 27-year-old man dies hours after Newark shooting
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