Death by Force

John Raymond Herse

Male · Arlington, Virginia

Killed Aug 14, 1974 · 52 years ago

On the evening of August 14, 1974, John Raymond Herse and his wife were walking back to their hotel in the Rosslyn area of Arlington, Virginia. They had just enjoyed a meal at the Orleans House Restaurant and were making their way along the street when they…

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Alice Hackett AKA Alice

Female, age 25 · St-johns, Michigan

Killed Aug 14, 1967 · 59 years ago

In the summer of 1967, the life of 25-year-old Alice Hackett, also known as Alice Shivley, was cut tragically short in St. Johns, Michigan. On Monday, August 14th, the young woman became a victim of gun violence. Details regarding the specific circumstances…

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Emma Darlene Rice Boles

Female, age 37 · Crestline, California

Killed Aug 14, 1965 · 61 years ago

Emma Darlene Rice Boles, aged 37, tragically lost her life on August 14, 1965, in Crestline, California. She, along with her husband James and their two sons, Bobby and Tommy, were found dead in their newly built cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains. The…

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James Boles

Male, age 31 · Crestline, California

Killed Aug 14, 1965 · 61 years ago

James A. Boles, aged 31, tragically died on August 14, 1965, in Crestline, California. The circumstances surrounding his death were both shocking and gruesome. James, along with his wife Darlene and their two sons, Bobby and Tommy, had traveled to their newly…

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Robert James Boles

Male, age 13 · Crestline, California

Killed Aug 14, 1965 · 61 years ago

On August 14, 1965, Robert James Boles, aged 13, was tragically murdered along with his family in their newly built cabin in Crestline, California. The Boles family, consisting of James (41), Darlene (37), Robert (often referred to as Bobby), and his younger…

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Thomas Boles

Male, age 12 · Crestline, California

Killed Aug 14, 1965 · 61 years ago

On August 13, 1965, the Boles family, including 12-year-old Thomas Eugene Boles, traveled to their new cabin in Crestline, California, for a weekend getaway. Tragically, their trip ended in a horrific crime. By August 16, concerned family members, unable to…

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Lorenzo Dow Troyer

Male, age 73 · Augusta, Maine

Killed Aug 14, 1965 · 61 years ago

In the late summer of 1965, the quiet community of Augusta, Maine, was disturbed by a brutal act of violence that would remain a topic of legal debate for years to come. On August 14, 73-year-old Lorenzo Troyer was discovered in his home, suffering from…

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Clarence Shockley

Male, age 34 · Niles-city, Michigan

Killed Aug 14, 1907 · 119 years ago

In the late hours of August 14, 1907, Patrolman Clarence Shockley was dutifully making his nightly rounds at the Carmi Smith Lumberyard in Niles, Michigan. The quiet of the evening was shattered when witnesses reported seeing two unidentified men enter the…

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W. R. Shaver

Male, age 35 · Boley, Oklahoma

Killed Aug 14, 1905 · 121 years ago

In the quiet, dusty town of Boley, Oklahoma, a dedicated lawman's life was tragically cut short on a fateful day in August of 1905. City Marshal W. R. Shaver, a 35-year-old African American man, was known for his fifteen years of service to the community. His…

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George Allen

Male, age 36 · Galesburg, Illinois

Killed Aug 14, 1902 · 124 years ago

Patrolman George H. Allen, aged 36, was a dedicated officer of the Galesburg Police Department in Illinois. On the evening of August 14, 1902, Allen was shot and killed while pursuing two suspects through an alley. During the chase, Allen knocked down a…

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James Golden

Male, age 38 · Dunmore-borough, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 14, 1900 · 126 years ago

James Golden, a 38-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was a Patrolman with the Dunmore Borough Police Department in Pennsylvania. On August 14, 1900, while attempting to arrest two men who were fighting outside a saloon near the intersection of Chestnut…

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David Smith Terry

Male, age 66 · Lathrop, California

Killed Aug 14, 1889 · 137 years ago

David Smith Terry, a prominent figure in California's legal and political history, met a tragic end on August 14, 1889, in Lathrop, California. Terry, who had served as the fourth Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, was involved in a series of…

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Joseph Pitts Sr

Male, age 44 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Aug 14, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the pre-dawn hours of a Monday in New Orleans, the relative quiet of the Mid-City neighborhood was broken by the sound of gunfire. On August 14, 2023, at approximately 3:30 a.m., officers from the New Orleans Police Department were dispatched to the…

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Jason Bowdy

Male, age 43 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Aug 14, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the early hours of a Monday morning in St. Louis County, Missouri, a dispute between friends escalated into deadly violence, leaving two men dead from gunshot wounds. The incident occurred on August 14, 2023, inside a residence on Old Hanley Road. Jason…

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Alejandro Arrellano-Fernandez

Male, age 43 · Lewisville, Texas

Killed Aug 14, 2023 · 3 years ago

On August 14, 2023, the bodies of 43-year-old Alejandro Arrellano-Fernandez and his mother, 66-year-old Lilia Fernandez Ortiz, were discovered in their Lewisville, Texas home by a relative who had been unable to contact them. Both victims had sustained…

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Lilia Fernandez Ortiz

Female, age 66 · Lewisville, Texas

Killed Aug 14, 2023 · 3 years ago

On August 14, 2023, the bodies of 66-year-old Lilia Fernandez Ortiz and her son, 43-year-old Alejandro Arrellano-Fernandez, were discovered in their Lewisville, Texas home by a concerned relative who had been unable to contact them. Both victims had suffered…

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Anthony Dinion

Male, age 40 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 14, 2022 · 4 years ago

Anthony Dinion, a 40-year-old man from Chicago, Illinois, died on August 14, 2022, after being shot outside the 69th Street Red Line station in Englewood. Dinion, who lived on the 7000 block of South Loomis Boulevard, was involved in a verbal altercation with…

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Aleksandr Sergeyev Rusanovskiy

Male, age 31 · Reseda, California

Killed Aug 14, 2020 · 6 years ago

Aleksandr Sergeyev Rusanovskiy, a 31-year-old resident of Reseda, California, tragically lost his life on August 14, 2020. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Rusanovskiy was shot by law enforcement officers near 6400…

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Roy Evans

Male, age 54 · Compton, California

Killed Aug 14, 2020 · 6 years ago

Roy Evans, a 54-year-old resident of Compton, California, tragically lost his life on August 14, 2020. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Evans was fatally shot near 835 W. Poplar St. in Compton. The incident occurred on a…

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Dewayne Braxton Hubbert

Male, age 60 · Fultondale, Alabama

Killed Aug 14, 2019 · 7 years ago

Dewayne Braxton Hubbert, a 60-year-old Black man, was a longtime Fultondale, Alabama resident whose final days unfolded after a violent crash on Interstate 65. On the evening of August 11, 2019, he was driving near Fultondale with several passengers when…

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A Li

Male, age 41 · Omaha, Nebraska

Killed Aug 14, 2019 · 7 years ago

A Li, a 41-year-old man, was found fatally wounded late on the night of August 14, 2019, near 49th and Hamilton Streets in Omaha. Police had been called to the area around 11:30 p.m. for a report of gunfire; officers located him outside an apartment building…

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Paula Hudson

Female, age 86 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Aug 14, 2019 · 7 years ago

On a summer day in August of 2019, the quiet community of Des Moines, a suburb of Seattle, Washington, was shaken by a tragic event that claimed the life of 86-year-old Paula Hudson. On August 14th, authorities discovered the bodies of Hudson, a female, and…

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Raylorce Ysef Gordon Jr

Male, age 30 · Florence, California

Killed Aug 14, 2019 · 7 years ago

Raylorce Ysef Gordon Jr., a 30-year-old man from Florence, California, tragically lost his life on August 14, 2019. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Gordon was shot and killed in Florence. His death was a significant…

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Terrence Newman

Male, age 23 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 14, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the summer of 2017, a young man's life was tragically cut short on the streets of Baltimore. Terrence Newman, a 23-year-old male, was killed in a burst of gunfire on August 14, 2017. The incident, which took place in Northeast Baltimore, resulted in a…

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Frederick Deon Cade

Male, age 44 · Washington, Georgia

Killed Aug 14, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the late hours of a summer evening in Washington, Georgia, a domestic turmoil simmering with jealousy and resentment reached its tragic conclusion, leaving 44-year-old Frederick Deon Cade dead. The male victim was discovered deceased on Peachtree Street in…

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Marc Barginear

Male, age 61 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 14, 2017 · 9 years ago

Marc A. Barginear, a 61-year-old African American man, died on August 14, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. His death was ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner's office. Barginear had been shot in August 2014 in the Englewood neighborhood…

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Michael Brown

Male, age 55 · Columbia, South Carolina

Killed Aug 14, 2015 · 11 years ago

On a summer day in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, a confrontation between an 18-year-old Black man named Michael Brown and a white police officer, Darren Wilson, ended in tragedy. Brown was walking with a friend, Dorian Johnson, when they were stopped…

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Andrew Martin Rosales

Male, age 28 · Downey, California

Killed Aug 14, 2015 · 11 years ago

Andrew Martin Rosales, a 28-year-old resident of Downey, California, tragically lost his life on August 14, 2015. The incident occurred in the 7000 block of Stewart and Gray Road, where Rosales was fatally shot following an argument that escalated into…

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Leonard Villapudua Garcia

Male, age 50 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Aug 14, 2015 · 11 years ago

Leonard Villapudua Garcia was 50 years old when he was fatally stabbed on Friday, August 14, 2015, in Lincoln Heights, just northeast of downtown Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at Lincoln…

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David Ng

Male, age 24 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

David Ng, a 24-year-old Asian man, was tragically shot and killed on August 14, 2014, in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred in the 800 block of West 64th Street. According to the Los Angeles County coroner’s…

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Santa Cruz Arredondo

Male, age 42 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Aug 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

Santa Cruz Arredondo was 42 years old when he died on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in South Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma near 42nd Street and Broadway, in the area the Los…

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Luis Diaz

Male, age 40 · New Bedford, Massachusetts

Killed Aug 14, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the late hours of a Friday evening in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on August 14, 2009, the life of Luis Diaz, a 43-year-old Hispanic male from Dorchester, was brought to a tragic and abrupt end. He and a female companion, 36-year-old Nettie Becht of New…

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Mohammed Hadi

Male, age 22 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Aug 14, 2008 · 18 years ago

Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent male activist and leader of the Inqilab Moncho, was fatally shot in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 12, 2025, while campaigning for the parliamentary elections. He was traveling in a battery-powered rickshaw in the Bijoynagar…

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Claudia Roberts

Female, age 24 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Aug 14, 2003 · 23 years ago

Claudia Roberts was 24 years old when she died on Thursday, August 14, 2003. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department case…

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Victor Centeno

Male, age 32 · Norwalk, California

Killed Aug 14, 1999 · 27 years ago

Victor Centeno, aged 32, tragically lost his life on August 14, 1999, in Norwalk, California. The circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of extensive investigation and legal scrutiny. On that fateful day, Centeno was found deceased under…

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Anne Tierney

Female, age 19 · Houma, Louisiana

Killed Aug 14, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the summer of 1977, a tragic event unfolded in Houma, Louisiana, forever altering the lives of several families. On August 14th, 19-year-old Anne Tierney, a young female, was at a mobile home in Bayou Blue with three other individuals: Bobby Todd, Terry…

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Sandra Brake

Female, age 19 · Houma, Louisiana

Killed Aug 14, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the summer of 1977, the life of 19-year-old Sandra Sue Brake was tragically cut short in a violent outburst that shook the community of Houma, Louisiana. On the evening of August 14th, Sandra found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inside the…

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Terry Herbert

Male, age 27 · Houma, Louisiana

Killed Aug 14, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the quiet community of Houma, Louisiana, a tragic event unfolded on August 14, 1977, forever altering the lives of several families. Terry Hebert, a 27-year-old male, was brutally murdered in a mobile home located in the Bayou Blue area. He was not the…

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George Rogers

Male · Rison, Arkansas

Killed Aug 14, 1925 · 101 years ago

George W. Rogers, 28, male, served as a deputy sheriff in Cleveland County when he was mortally wounded during a manhunt near Rison on August 14, 1925. He and Deputy Ulyss Melvin Baldwin were part of a posse of seven deputies searching a residence tied to two…

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