Deaths by Force (495)

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Silverio Jimenez

Male, age 39 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Aug 15, 2009 · 17 years ago

On Saturday, August 15, 2009, thirty-nine-year-old Silverio Jimenez was found dead in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Officers responded to the 3000 block of Ganahl Street, a quiet residential stretch positioned on the hillside terrain…

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Isaac Ross

Male, age 38 · District-heights, Maryland

Killed Aug 15, 2007 · 19 years ago

On August 15, 2007, Isaac Ross, a 38-year-old male resident of District Heights, Maryland, was killed in what authorities determined to be a homicide. The circumstances of his death prompted an investigation by law enforcement. According to available…

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Max Gonzalez

Male, age 59 · Capitol-heights, Maryland

Killed Aug 15, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the late summer of 2007, tragedy struck the community of Capitol Heights, Maryland, with the untimely death of 59-year-old Max Gonzalez. On the evening of August 15th, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Gonzalez was fatally shot near his residence in the 9400…

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Thomas Ruelas

Male, age 48 · Azusa, California

Killed Aug 15, 2007 · 19 years ago

Thomas Ruelas was 48 years old when he died on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007, in Azusa. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 923 E. Hollyvale St. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as an Azusa Police…

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Leza Marie Maddalone

Female, age 31 · Pearland, Texas

Killed Aug 15, 2005 · 21 years ago

Leza Marie Maddalone, a 31-year-old woman from Pearland, Texas, tragically lost her life on August 15, 2005. She was fatally shot in the parking lot of a bank in Pearland, just five days after celebrating her 31st birthday. The incident occurred around 7 p.m.…

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Laura Salazar

Female, age 38 · South El Monte, California

Killed Aug 15, 2005 · 21 years ago

Laura Salazar was 38 years old when she died on Monday, August 15, 2005, in South El Monte. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 9566 Garvey Ave. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it…

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Mario Cortez

Male, age 20 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 15, 2004 · 22 years ago

Mario Cortez, a 20-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on August 15, 2004, in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Mario was fatally shot, marking a violent end to his young life. The incident occurred…

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Susan Kolman

Female · Wickenburg, Arizona

Killed Aug 15, 2003 · 23 years ago

On August 15, 2003, in the Western desert town of Wickenburg, Arizona, a woman named Susan Kolman lost her life to gun violence. She was more than a date and a location in a database; she was a person whose story now survives mostly in a few stark lines on…

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Raienhana Bechtel

Female, age 22 · Morea, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 15, 2002 · 24 years ago

In the early hours of a summer day in Morea, Pennsylvania, a grim scene unfolded that would leave a lasting scar on the small community. On August 15, 2002, 22-year-old Raienhana Bechtel was tragically killed in her home. Her life was cut short in a violent…

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Ann Morris

Female, age 63 · Athens, Georgia

Killed Aug 15, 1987 · 39 years ago

Ann Orr Morris, a 63-year-old female American silversmith, goldsmith, and enamelist, was tragically killed in her hometown of Athens, Georgia. On August 15, 1987, Morris was the victim of a brutal triple homicide that also claimed the lives of her sister…

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Olga Cannon

Female, age 23 · Fresno, California

Killed Aug 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

Olga Cannon, a 23-year-old African American woman, was murdered on August 15, 1984, in Fresno County, California. Her body was discovered on December 8, 1984, in an irrigation ditch near Easton, California. The cause of death was determined to be bludgeoning…

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Allen Hamilton

Male, age 24 · Portland, Oregon

Found Aug 15, 1977 · 49 years ago

On a summer afternoon in Portland, Oregon, the steady flow of the Willamette River gave up a grim secret. It was Monday, August 15, 1977, when an employee of the Portland Development Commission spotted a body floating near the Ankeny Pump Station around 2:15…

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Joseph Perriano

Male · Manhattan, New York

Killed Aug 15, 1930 · 96 years ago

On a summer day in 1930, Joseph Perriano, a male associate of the powerful crime figure Giuseppe Morello, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The streets of East Harlem, a territory under the control of Morello's faction in the burgeoning…

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John Cahill

Male · Haverstraw, New York

Killed Aug 15, 1905 · 121 years ago

In the late summer of 1905, the town of Haverstraw, New York, was rocked by the violent death of one of its own lawmen, Constable John Cahill. On the evening of Tuesday, August 15th, Cahill, a dedicated male officer of the Haverstraw Village Police…

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William Tratebas

Male, age 19 · Chesterton, Indiana

Killed Aug 15, 1895 · 131 years ago

In the late summer of 1895, a long-simmering property dispute in Chesterton, Indiana, erupted into a shocking act of violence that claimed the life of 19-year-old William R. Tratebas. The young man, a resident of the small town, was fatally shot on the…

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Deaths by Force (495)