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Nickalas Lee

Case from Roanoke, VA dated Jun 15, 2017

Victim Details

Nickalas Nathaniel “Nick” Lee

Male

Black / African American

Roanoke

VA

2017-06-15

17

Nickalas

Lee

06/27/2026

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In the early morning hours of June 15, 2017, in Roanoke, Virginia, the life of 17-year-old Nickalas Lee was tragically cut short. Just two weeks after graduating high school, he was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the Countryside Estates apartment complex on Tuckawana Circle NW. Responders rushed him to a nearby hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries about an hour later. The male teenager, affectionately known as 'Nick,' was a recent high school graduate with a promising future, known ...
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