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Deborah Johnson

Case from Newark, NJ dated Dec 12, 2014

Victim Details

Deborah Johnson

Female

Black / African American

Newark

NJ

2014-12-12

47

Deborah

Johnson

07/14/2026

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Deborah Johnson, a 47-year-old Black woman from Newark, New Jersey, was found dead on December 12, 2014, inside an abandoned house in the city’s West Ward. The vacant building stood on the 100 block of South 10th Street, a quiet address in the early morning hours when officers and emergency personnel arrived to find her unconscious and unresponsive. She had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and despite efforts at the scene she was pronounced dead there, her life ending in the shadows of a prop ...
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  • NJ.com: Woman found shot to death inside abandoned Newark home
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