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Deaths by Force on August 18

702 open cases in our database happened on August 18. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (498)

Death by Force

Gador Peter Wal

Male, age 28 · Seattle, Washington
Killed Aug 18, 2026 · this year

In the late summer of 2026, the life of 28-year-old Gador Peter Wal was tragically cut short in what would become an unsettling and unresolved homicide case in Seattle, Washington. On the evening of Tuesday, August 18th, a grim discovery was made inside the M…

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Tyrone Wilson

Male, age 42 · Merigold, Mississippi
Killed Aug 18, 2024 · 2 years ago

On a Sunday morning in August, the quiet of Merigold, Mississippi, was broken by a grim discovery. The body of 42-year-old Tyrone Wilson Jr. of Shaw was found on a gravel road on August 18, 2024. An investigation launched by the Bolivar County Sheriff's…

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Death by Force

Josue Geovanni Argueta Giron

Male, age 45 · Houston, Texas
Killed Aug 18, 2023 · 3 years ago

On August 18, 2023, in Houston, Texas, 45-year-old Josue Geovanni Argueta Girón was tragically killed. At approximately 6:35 a.m., as he was loading tools into his SUV in the garage of his residence on Grove Glen Drive, preparing for work, he was shot…

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Charles Anthony Green Jr.

Male, age 27 · Catonsville, Maryland
Killed Aug 18, 2020 · 6 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 18, 2020, the quiet of a Catonsville neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunfire, leaving a young man dead and a community in shock. Just before 12:30 a.m., Baltimore County Police were called to the 200 block of…

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Yusuf El- Williams

Male, age 62 · Downtown, California
Killed Aug 18, 2020 · 6 years ago

Yusuf El-Williams was 62 years old when he died on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma near the corner of 6th and San Pedro streets in downtown Los Angeles. His…

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Corey Wells

Male, age 40 · Washington, District of Columbia
Killed Aug 18, 2019 · 7 years ago

On a summer evening in Washington, D.C., the sounds of gunshots shattered the night in the 1500 block of 45th Street, Northeast. When police arrived at the Kenilworth-Parkside neighborhood around 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 18, 2019, they found a chaotic…

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Hector Menjivar-Chulo

Male, age 42 · Richmond, Virginia
Killed Aug 18, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the early morning hours of a Sunday in Richmond, Virginia, the life of Hector Menjivar-Chulo, a 42-year-old man, was brought to a sudden and violent end. On August 18, 2019, at approximately 9:13 a.m., police were called to the 4500 block of Old Warwick…

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James Williams

Male, age 62 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed Aug 18, 2018 · 8 years ago

On a Wednesday evening in February 2015, the life of James Williams was tragically cut short in Baltimore, Maryland. At approximately 7:08 p.m. on February 11th, police responded to a call in the 3900 block of West Garrison Avenue. There, they discovered Mr.…

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Kevin Anthony Cobbs

Male, age 41 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Aug 18, 2018 · 8 years ago

Kevin Anthony Cobbs, a 41-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, tragically lost his life on August 18, 2018. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Cobbs was fatally shot in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. The incident occurred on a…

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Ann Rudolph

Female, age 70 · Montgomery, Alabama
Killed Aug 18, 2017 · 9 years ago

Ann Rudolph, a 70-year-old woman from Montgomery, Alabama, was caught in a burst of violence on the night of August 18, 2017, when police were called to the 4000 block of Admore Drive and found her suffering from a serious gunshot wound. What began as an…

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Gary Anthony Storm

Male, age 63 · Oakland, California
Killed Aug 18, 2017 · 9 years ago

Gary Anthony Storm, aged 63, was tragically shot and killed on August 18, 2017, near his home in West Oakland, California. The incident occurred early in the morning, around 4:52 a.m., near his apartment located in the 1400 block of Seventh Street, directly…

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Carl Dill

Male, age 65 · Buena-vista, Georgia
Killed Aug 18, 2017 · 9 years ago

Carl Dill, a 65-year-old White man from Buena Vista, Georgia, died on August 18, 2017. The online record that can be corroborated in public sources is thin, but it consistently places his death in Buena Vista on that date, and one memorial database identifies…

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Reynaldo Santibanez

Male, age 31 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 18, 2017 · 9 years ago

On Friday, August 18, 2017, thirty-one-year-old Reynaldo Santibanez lost his life in Los Angeles, California. Santibanez, a Hispanic man born on January 6, 1986, died under circumstances that authorities determined to be a homicide. While the coroner's office…

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Juan Delafuente

Male, age 35 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Aug 18, 2013 · 13 years ago

On August 18, 2013, 35-year-old Juan Delafuente was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois. The National Gun Violence Memorial lists him among the individuals lost to gun violence on that date. Public records indicate that a person named Juan Delafuente was…

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Gregory William Desean Gardner

Male · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 18, 2005 · 21 years ago

Gregory William Desean Gardner was a baby, less than a year old, when he died on Thursday, August 18, 2005. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is…

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Richard Menendez

Male, age 64 · Tampa, Florida
Killed Aug 18, 1995 · 31 years ago

Richard Menendez, a 64-year-old Hispanic male, was tragically killed on August 18, 1995, in Tampa, Florida. Menendez, a traveling salesman specializing in floral supplies, was at his home in Temple Terrace when the incident occurred. The crime took place…

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Arthur Jennings

age 83 · Oakland, California
Killed Aug 18, 1980 · 46 years ago

On August 18, 1980, Arthur Jennings, an 83-year-old white male and World War I veteran, was found murdered in his Oakland, California home. A Meals-on-Wheels driver, who had delivered a meal and spoken with Jennings around 10:30 a.m. that day, discovered his…

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Emmett Johnson

Male, age 62 · Ely, Nevada
Killed Aug 18, 1974 · 52 years ago

On a fateful day, September 18, 1974, the lives of Emmett Johnson, a 62-year-old Caucasian male, and his wife, Lois, were tragically cut short. The couple had made a stop at a rest area near the quiet town of Ely, Nevada, unaware of the horrific encounter…

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