Death by Force

Jeffrey Mclaughlin

Male, age 38 · San Francisco, California

Found Apr 25, 2007 · 19 years ago

Jeffrey McLaughlin, a 38-year-old male, was shot to death in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district on April 25, 2007. The incident occurred at Hyde and Turk streets around 12:25 a.m. and was believed to be linked to a drug-related dispute over money. Witnesses…

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Jamille Parker

Male, age 29 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Apr 25, 2007 · 19 years ago

On the evening of April 25, 2007, a resident of Mattapan, 29-year-old Black male Jamille Parker, was found suffering from a stab wound in front of 1258 Blue Hill Avenue. Boston Police officers from District B-3 responded to a call for a person stabbed at…

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David Brinkerhoff

Male, age 29 · Margaretville, New York

Killed Apr 25, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the spring of 2007, the quiet community of Margaretville, New York, became the backdrop for a tragedy that would claim the life of a dedicated public servant. On April 25th, 29-year-old New York State Trooper David Brinkerhoff was killed in the line of…

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Terrance Everett

Male, age 19 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Apr 25, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the spring of 2005, the life of 19-year-old Terrance D. Everett was tragically cut short on a Monday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia. A Black/African American male, Terrance, who was also known by his nickname 'T-Dog,' became a victim of gun violence on…

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Tia Tinnie

Female · Watts, California

Killed Apr 25, 2004 · 22 years ago

On Sunday, April 25, 2004, infant Tia Tinnie died in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Tia, an infant under one year of age whose race was recorded as Black, passed away at or near 2020 East 97th Street. The incident occurred in a densely populated…

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Anthony Brooks

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Apr 25, 2003 · 23 years ago

The homicide of Anthony Brooks in Columbus, Ohio, on April 25, 2003, remains an unsolved case with limited public information available. Brooks was reportedly shot in what was described as an ambush or sudden attack, though the exact details of the incident…

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Kemondra Tucker

Male, age 18 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Apr 25, 2000 · 26 years ago

Kemondra Dewayne Tucker, an 18-year-old male from Dallas, Texas, was known for his involvement in the local rap scene. He was a member of the rap group Juggteam, which gained attention on platforms like YouTube, with one of their videos amassing over 22,000…

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Daniel Trujillo

Male, age 23 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Apr 25, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the spring of 1999, a night out in Denver ended in tragedy for Daniel Trujillo, a 23-year-old white male. On April 25th, Trujillo was at Veronica's Bases Loaded Bar, located near the intersection of Speer and Federal Boulevard. A fight that began inside…

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Steven Roy Smith

Male, age 43 · Grove, Oklahoma

Killed Apr 25, 1999 · 27 years ago

Steven Roy Smith, a 43-year-old White male Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper from the Grove area, answered a call on April 25, 1999, that began as someone else’s murder case and quietly became his own. That evening, Trooper Eddie Rose and officers from the…

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Willie Raymond Alexander

Male, age 39 · Macon, Georgia

Killed Apr 25, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the spring of 1999, the life of Willie Raymond Alexander, a 39-year-old male, was tragically cut short in Macon, Georgia. On April 25th, Alexander became a victim of gun violence, a stark event that left a lasting mark on his family and community. The…

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Roger Troutman

Male, age 47 · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Apr 25, 1999 · 27 years ago

Roger Troutman, a 47-year-old African American male, was a renowned R&B recording artist and pioneer of the "Dayton sound." On April 25, 1999, Troutman was tragically shot multiple times in the alley behind his music studio on Salem Avenue in Dayton, OH. He…

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Allen William Gibson

Male, age 25 · Waverly, Virginia

Killed Apr 25, 1998 · 28 years ago

On a tragic day in Waverly, Virginia, 25-year-old Patrolman Allen William Gibson, Jr. lost his life. It was April 25, 1998, and the young officer, who had been with the Waverly Police Department for only two months, was on foot patrol. He encountered two men…

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David John Chetcuti

Male, age 43 · Millbrae, California

Killed Apr 25, 1998 · 28 years ago

David John Chetcuti, a dedicated officer of the Millbrae Police Department, tragically lost his life on April 25, 1998, at the age of 43. Born on March 5, 1955, in San Francisco, Chetcuti was known for his commitment to public service and his quick response…

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Jerry Dyer

Male, age 33 · Knoxville, Tennessee

Killed Apr 25, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the quiet community of Fountain City, a suburb of Knoxville, Tennessee, the morning of April 25, 1997, was shattered by the discovery of a fatal fire. When firefighters arrived at the small cottage on Montrose Road, they found the badly burned body of…

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Laralee Spear

Female, age 15 · Volusia County, Florida

Killed Apr 25, 1994 · 32 years ago

Laralee Spear, a 15-year-old student from DeLand, Volusia County, Florida, was tragically abducted and murdered on April 25, 1994. She was last seen getting off her school bus near Deerfoot Road and Spring Garden Avenue, around 3:15 p.m., just a short…

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Vicki Beasley-Brown

Female, age 43 · Highland Park, Michigan

Killed Apr 25, 1992 · 34 years ago

Vicki Beasley-Brown, a 43-year-old African American woman, disappeared on March 25, 1992, becoming one of the victims in a string of terrifying murders that gripped the Detroit and Highland Park communities. Her partially decomposed body was discovered on…

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Rodrique Marcelin

Male, age 46 · Immokalee, Florida

Killed Apr 25, 1990 · 36 years ago

Rodrique Marcelin, a 46-year-old resident of Immokalee, Florida, was tragically killed on April 25, 1990. Marcelin, also known by the alias Wallace, died from a fatal stab wound. His body was discovered on Tyler Street in Immokalee, a small community in…

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Robert Puente III

Male, age 21 · San Antonio, Texas

Killed Apr 25, 1989 · 37 years ago

On April 25, 1989, 21-year-old Hispanic male Robert Puente III was discovered deceased in his San Antonio, Texas, apartment. The sequence of events leading to this tragic discovery began when the San Antonio Police Department contacted his father, Robert…

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Delos Gedzius Sr.

Male · Merrionette Park, Illinois

Killed Apr 25, 1989 · 37 years ago

Delos Gedzius Sr., a hard-working pipefitter and former Marine, was found dead in his apartment in Merrionette Park, Illinois, on April 25, 1989. His death was caused by a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities launched an investigation into the circumstances…

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Glenn Sutton

Male, age 62 · Athens, Georgia

Killed Apr 25, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the quiet university town of Athens, Georgia, a shocking act of violence shattered the community's sense of peace in the spring of 1987. Dr. Glenn Sutton, a respected 82-year-old retired University of Georgia finance professor, and his wife, Rachel, also a…

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Wendy Aughe

Female, age 29 · Bellingham, Washington

Killed Apr 25, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the spring of 1987, the life of a 29-year-old White female named Wendy Aughe came to a tragic and mysterious end in Bellingham, Washington. A student at a local beauty school and a mother to an eight-year-old daughter, Wendy was last seen in the early…

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Lyette Gibb

Female, age 18 · Laval, Quebec

Killed Apr 25, 1987 · 39 years ago

Lyette Gibb was an 18-year-old White/Caucasian woman from Laval, Quebec, whose disappearance in the spring of 1987 became a long-running unsolved homicide investigation. At approximately 1:50 a.m. on April 25, she left a friend’s residence on Notre-Dame…

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Happy Howry

Male, age 66 · Odessa, Texas

Killed Apr 25, 1982 · 44 years ago

Happy Howry, a 66-year-old white male, was reported missing from his home in Odessa, Texas, on April 25, 1982. He was last seen after attending church that Sunday. Howry had been a longtime resident of Odessa since 1950 and worked as a salesman at J.C. Penney…

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Eugene Luther

Male, age 50 · Sacramento, California

Killed Apr 25, 1980 · 46 years ago

Eugene N. Luther, a Deputy Sheriff with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, tragically lost his life on April 25, 1980, at the age of 50. On that fateful evening, Deputy Luther was off duty and had just left a restaurant in the northern area of…

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Kathryn Ann Moore Culpepper

Female, age 35 · Glynn, Georgia

Killed Apr 25, 1980 · 46 years ago

On a tragic day in Glynn County, Georgia, 35-year-old Kathryn Ann Moore Culpepper, a white female, lost her life in a brutal and senseless act of violence. The events of April 25, 1980, would leave a lasting scar on the community and result in a lengthy legal…

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Helen Louise Bellamy

Female, age 30 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Apr 25, 1980 · 46 years ago

Helen Louise Bellamy, a 30-year-old Black/African American woman, was killed inside her home on Milwaukee’s North Side on April 25, 1980. Bellamy was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a tire jack. The attack occurred during a period in which several…

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Sarah M. Faulkner

Female, age 56 · Elkridge, Maryland

Killed Apr 25, 1979 · 47 years ago

On a tragic day in Elkridge, Maryland, the lives of Sarah M. Faulkner, a 56-year-old female, and her husband, Carvel, were brutally cut short. On April 25, 1979, the couple was discovered deceased inside their home in what was determined to be a homicide. The…

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Frank Clearwater

Male, age 47 · Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Killed Apr 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

Frank Clearwater, a 47-year-old Native American man of Cherokee and Apache descent, traveled to Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in the spring of 1973 to show his support for the American Indian Movement and the Oglala Lakota who were in a standoff with federal…

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Perry Ray Robinson

Male, age 35 · Pine Ridge, South Dakota

Killed Apr 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

In the spring of 1973, Perry Ray Robinson, a 35-year-old Black/African American male and civil rights activist from Alabama, traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was drawn there by the Wounded Knee occupation, a 71-day standoff…

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Jeannette Kamahele

Female, age 20 · Santa Rosa, California

Killed Apr 25, 1972 · 54 years ago

Jeannette Kamahele, a 20-year-old female student at Santa Rosa Junior College, was last seen on April 25, 1972, hitchhiking near the Cotati on-ramp of Highway 101. Her disappearance is linked to the Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders, a series of at least seven…

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Shirley Brittingham

Female, age 32 · Camden, New Jersey

Killed Apr 25, 1969 · 57 years ago

On a late April day in 1969, Shirley Brittingham, a 32-year-old woman who was several months pregnant, moved through a Camden, New Jersey, already strained by poverty and rising crime. She was known within her circle as someone trying to keep her life on…

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Warren Wells

Male, age 27 · Camden, New Jersey

Killed Apr 25, 1969 · 57 years ago

In the spring of 1969 in Camden, New Jersey, the discovery of a young woman's body was a grim harbinger of a string of violent crimes that would grip the city. Just three days after Shirley Brittingham was found, another victim was identified as Warren Wells…

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Douglas M. Price

Male · San-antonio, Texas

Killed Apr 25, 1968 · 58 years ago

Douglas M. Price, a 27-year-old white male, was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation . He was tragically shot and killed on April 25, 1968, near San Antonio, Texas, during an FBI operation aimed at apprehending David Rice Chubb, a fugitive…

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Charles Christopher Hogan

Male, age 21 · Orcutt, California

Killed Apr 25, 1965 · 61 years ago

Charles Christopher Hogan, aged 21, tragically lost his life on April 25, 1965, in a mass shooting incident near Orcutt, California. The event, known as the Highway 101 sniper attack, was perpetrated by 16-year-old Michael Andrew Clark. Early that Sunday…

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Joel Kocab

Male, age 28 · Orcutt, California

Killed Apr 25, 1965 · 61 years ago

Joel W. Kocab, aged 28, tragically lost his life on April 25, 1965, in Orcutt, California, during a horrific sniper attack on U.S. Highway 101. The incident, known as the 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack, was perpetrated by 16-year-old Michael Andrew Clark.…

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Kevin Dean Reida

Male, age 5 · Orcutt, California

Killed Apr 25, 1965 · 61 years ago

Kevin Dean Reida, a five-year-old boy from Orcutt, California, tragically lost his life on April 25, 1965, during a mass shooting incident on U.S. Highway 101. The perpetrator, 16-year-old Michael Andrew Clark, carried out the attack from a hilltop…

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William E. Tipton

Male · Portales, New Mexico

Killed Apr 25, 1907 · 119 years ago

Deputy Sheriff William E. Tipton, who served with the Portales Police Department in Portales, New Mexico, met a tragic end on April 25, 1907. The incident that led to his death was a result of a confrontation with another officer who had been drinking. On the…

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James Burk

Male, age 36 · Big-spring, Texas

Killed Apr 25, 1907 · 119 years ago

Deputized Civilian James P. Burk, aged 36, was a member of the Big Spring Police Department in Texas. On the night of April 25, 1907, Burk volunteered to assist City Marshal T. B. Sullivan in raiding a house of prostitution. As Burk walked around the house…

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Mark Gilbertson

Male, age 50 · Gardena, California

Killed Apr 25, 2025 · 1 year ago

Mark Gilbertson, a 50-year-old Asian male, was found deceased at his residence in Gardena, California, on April 25, 2025. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office formally pronounced his death at 8:10 a.m. The official cause of death was determined to be a…

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Pedro Medina Jr

Male, age 27 · East-los-angeles, California

Killed Apr 25, 2022 · 4 years ago

Pedro Medina Jr., a 27-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on April 25, 2022, in East Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning, around 1:15 a.m., on the 1100 block of South Kern Avenue. According to the Los…

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James Laran Calhoun

Male, age 42 · Winter-park, Florida

Killed Apr 25, 2022 · 4 years ago

James Laran Calhoun, aged 42, tragically lost his life on April 25, 2022, in Winter Park, Florida. The incident occurred in the home he shared with his wife, Emma Cain, and their youngest son. The couple had recently opened their home to a family friend…

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William Anderson

Male, age 63 · Warren, Ohio

Killed Apr 25, 2017 · 9 years ago

On the evening of April 24, 2017, William Anderson, a 63-year-old male from Youngstown, Ohio, was discovered deceased in his vehicle outside the Candlelight Apartments on Harvard Drive SE in Warren. He had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. The discovery was made…

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David James Darling

Male, age 36 · Spokane, Washington

Killed Apr 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the spring of 2015, the life of 36-year-old David James Darling, a male resident of Spokane, Washington, was cut tragically short. On the afternoon of April 25th, a startling scene unfolded in the East Central neighborhood. A car was found stopped in the…

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Anthony Hardie

Male, age 50 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Apr 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

On an ordinary spring day in 2015, Anthony Hardie, a 50-year-old male resident of Detroit, was simply trying to earn a living as a part-time maintenance man. On April 25th, he was in the city of Pontiac, Michigan, applying a fresh coat of paint to the inside…

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Daniel Howard Davis

Male, age 58 · Clermont, Florida

Killed Apr 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

Daniel Howard Davis, a 58-year-old Caucasian male, passed away on April 25, 2015, in Clermont, Florida. His death was noted in various obituaries, which highlighted his life and the impact he had on his community. However, the circumstances surrounding his…

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Patrick Brown

Male, age 32 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Apr 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

In a tragic turn of events on April 25, 2015, 32-year-old Patrick Brown, a male from Memphis, Tennessee, lost his life in a violent encounter. Brown was inside his vehicle when he was targeted by a shooter who fired multiple rounds, causing him to lose…

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Ronnie Brown

Male, age 36 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Apr 25, 2014 · 12 years ago

On the night of April 25, 2014, Ronnie Brown, a 36-year-old man, was fatally shot in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle's Central District. The shooting occurred on 28th Avenue South and South Charles Street, just steps from the home of a local resident who…

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Edward Damont Haley

Male, age 36 · Beloit, Wisconsin

Killed Apr 25, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the early hours of April 25, 2014, the city of Beloit, Wisconsin, was rocked by a homicide that would take over a year to see arrests. Edward Damont Haley, a 36-year-old Black man, was found shot and lying in the roadway in the 2100 block of Newark Road.…

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