Deaths by Force on August 5

Deaths by Force (542)

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Ellis Lewis Embry

Male, age 66 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, a tragedy unfolded in a Birmingham, Alabama neighborhood that left a family grieving and a community searching for answers. On August 5th, 66-year-old Ellis Lewis Embry, a Black male, was found deceased inside a residence in the 1000…

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Timothy Erby

Male, age 49 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, a tragedy unfolded in a Birmingham, Alabama home, leaving two men dead from apparent gunshot wounds. On August 5th, officers responded to reports of gunfire in the 1000 block of 42nd Place North. Inside the residence, they discovered…

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Timothy Lashawn Erby

Male, age 49 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, tragedy struck in Birmingham, Alabama, when Timothy Lashawn Erby, a 49-year-old male, was found dead on August 5th. His life was cut short by gunfire in what police would soon classify as a double homicide. The grim discovery was made…

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Rodney Fossett

Male, age 21 · Decatur, Alabama

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Rodney Fossett was a 21-year-old Black man whose life was cut short in Decatur, Alabama, during the summer of 2021. On the evening of July 13, 2021, Decatur police officers were called to the Summer Courtyard Apartments at 2222 Arcadia Drive SW following…

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Avointae Tarvaris Sices

Male, age 13 · Tucson, Arizona

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, a tragedy unfolded in Tucson, Arizona, forever altering the lives of two families. On the 5th of August, 13-year-old Avointae Tarvaris Sices, an African American male, was at a residence on East Sundew Drive. Remembered by his family as…

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Jamarr Edward Jones

Male, age 34 · Tucson, Arizona

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the evening of August 5, 2021, a verbal confrontation inside a home on East Sundew Drive in Tucson, Arizona, escalated into a tragedy that claimed two lives. Jamarr Edward Jones, a 34-year-old Black / African American male, was fatally shot and died at the…

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Daniel William Smith

Male, age 31 · Wynne, Arkansas

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the late afternoon of August 5, 2021, a violent series of events unfolded on the streets of Wynne, Arkansas, leaving one man dead and another wounded. Daniel William Smith, a 31-year-old male from the neighboring community of Forrest City, was found by…

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Jason Rolando Comes

Male, age 38 · Somers, Connecticut

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the late summer of 2021, the life of 38-year-old Hispanic male Jason Rolando Comes was tragically cut short. On August 5, 2021, his body was discovered inside a vehicle that was found in a wooded area off Durkee Road in Somers, Connecticut, approximately…

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Brandon Shirley

Male, age 26 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 5, 2021, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Brandon Shirley, a 26-year-old man, was shot and killed while working an off-duty security job at Rockford Lane Auto Sales in Louisville, Kentucky. He was in uniform at the time…

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Exzaiveeher Little

Male, age 20 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, on a Thursday, August 5th, a 20-year-old Black / African American male named Exzaiveeher Little lost his life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Details surrounding the circumstances of his death remain scarce in publicly available online…

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William Dionne Jefferson

Male, age 23 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, the life of 23-year-old William Dionne Jefferson, a Black/African American male, was tragically cut short in a burst of gunfire on the north side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the night of August 5th, near the intersection of 48th and…

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Bruce Willis

Male, age 34 · Greenville, Mississippi

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the late hours of a Thursday evening in Greenville, Mississippi, the life of 34-year-old Bruce Willis was brought to a violent and abrupt end. On August 5, 2021, Greenville Police responded to a call of shots fired around 10 p.m. in the 700 block of West…

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Chartez D’Markis Milsap

Male, age 19 · Waynesboro, Mississippi

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, the community of Waynesboro, Mississippi, was touched by the sudden and tragic loss of a recent high school graduate. Chartez D’Markis Milsap, a 19-year-old male, passed away on or around August 5, 2021, leaving behind a loving family…

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Samuel King

Male, age 36 · Butler, Indiana

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

On a summer evening in Butler, Indiana, the life of 36-year-old Samuel Thomas King was tragically cut short. On August 5, 2021, a burst of gunfire shattered the peace at a residence, leaving King, a male, fatally wounded. Two other individuals were also…

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Preston Hickman

Male, age 64 · Syracuse, South Carolina

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the afternoon of August 5, 2021, Preston Hickman Sr., 64, a Black man, was killed in a shooting in the Syracuse community of Darlington County, South Carolina. Reports described the violence unfolding around early afternoon along Philadelphia Street and…

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Travis Antonio Draper

Male, age 41 · Spartanburg, South Carolina

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Travis Antonio Draper, a 41-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on August 5, 2021, in what authorities described as a road rage incident. Draper, a married father of three, was on his way to work at BMW that morning and was…

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Brian Christopher Palmer

Male, age 26 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the evening of August 5, 2021, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of the 4300 block of Flowerton Road in Southwest Baltimore. When police arrived around 8:20 p.m., they discovered two men inside a vehicle, both unconscious and suffering from multiple…

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Darrin Tyrell Stewart

Male, age 33 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, on the evening of August 5th, 33-year-old Darrin Tyrell Stewart, a male, found himself in the 4300 block of Flowerton Road in Baltimore, Maryland, in a situation that would tragically turn fatal. He was not alone; with him was his…

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David Riggle

Male, age 40 · Sacramento, California

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

David Riggle, a 40-year-old resident of Citrus Heights, Sacramento County, was tragically killed on the night of August 5, 2021. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a person lying on the sidewalk in the 6400 block of Verner Avenue.…

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Gener Vasquez Orozco

Male, age 20 · Oakland, California

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Gener Vasquez Orozco, a 20-year-old resident of San Mateo, California, tragically lost his life on August 5, 2021, in Oakland. He was found shot to death at approximately 12:35 a.m. in the 1800 block of East 17th Street near San Antonio Park. According to…

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Jeffrey Ayala

Male, age 44 · San-bernardino, California

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Jeffrey Ayala, a 44-year-old resident of San Bernardino, California, was tragically found dead on August 5, 2021. His body was discovered in an open field off North Fairfax Drive, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The San Bernardino Police Department…

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Jonathan Luke Reyes

Male, age 33 · East-los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Jonathan Luke Reyes, a 33-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on August 5, 2021, in East Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Reyes was shot near 4323 Floral Drive. The incident occurred on a…

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Kevin Porter

Male, age 43 · Long-beach, California

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Kevin Alberto Porter, a 43-year-old resident of Long Beach, California, tragically lost his life on August 5, 2021. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Kevin was fatally shot near 700 E. Shoreline Drive in Long Beach. The…

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Wintrell Jones

Male, age 18 · Ocala, Florida

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Wintrell Jones, an 18-year-old resident of Ocala, Florida, tragically lost his life on August 3, 2021. The incident occurred at the Northgate Villas apartment complex in northwest Marion County. On that fateful day, the Marion County Sheriff's Office received…

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Isabelle Brown

Female, age 55 · Townsend, Georgia

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Isabelle “Bess” Brown Wolfes, a 55-year-old White woman from Townsend, Georgia, was found dead at her home off Atwood Road in the Cedar Point area after she failed to show up for work, a silence that worried the people who knew her routines best. According to…

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Lorenzo Davyne Omartez Capers

Male, age 22 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the summer of 2021, a senseless act of violence cut short the life of Lorenzo Davyne Omartez Capers, a 22-year-old African American man from the Atlanta, Georgia area. On the evening of August 5, 2021, Capers was gunned down in what has been described as a…

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Makaylah McKay

Female, age 4 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Makaylah McKay, a 4-year-old African American girl, tragically died on August 5, 2021, in Chicago, IL. The incident occurred in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. According to reports, Makaylah was accidentally shot by another child who found…

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Hassan Veal

Male, age 19 · Marrero, Louisiana

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the night of August 5, 2021, a 19-year-old male college student named Hassan Veal was tragically killed in Marrero, Louisiana. Veal, who was a graduate of the New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy and was studying petroleum engineering at the University…

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Telra Johnson

Male, age 44 · Hammond, Louisiana

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the late summer of 2021, the community of Hammond, Louisiana, was rocked by a sudden act of violence that claimed the life of a local man. Telra Johnson, a 44-year-old male, was fatally shot on August 5, 2021. The incident cut short the life of a man known…

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Sandra Holder Reece

Female, age 61 · Franklin, North Carolina

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Sandra Holder Reece, a 61-year-old woman from Franklin, NC, passed away on August 6, 2021. She was born on December 27, 1959, in Haywood County to the late William Carol Holder and Virginia Fincher Holder. Sandra had worked at Ingles Supermarket in…

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Van Cooper

Male, age 33 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Van Anthony Cooper, a 33-year-old African American male, tragically lost his life on August 5, 2021, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The incident occurred in the 300-block of South Cool Spring Street, where he was found with gunshot wounds. Despite being…

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Christopher Cordero

Male, age 34 · Youngstown, Ohio

Killed Aug 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

Christopher Brian "Crazy Chris" Cordero, a 34-year-old male of Hispanic ethnicity from Youngstown, OH, tragically died on August 5, 2021. He was known for his passion for making real-life music and was a beloved figure in his community. On the evening of his…

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Luciano DeOliveira

Male, age 34 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

On the morning of August 5, 2016, Luciano De'Oliveira, a 34-year-old Hispanic / Latino male, was shot outside his home in a north Phoenix neighborhood near 16th Drive and Bell Road after answering a knock at his front door. Shortly after 9 a.m., two men came…

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Delance Price

Male, age 16 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

Delance Price, a 16-year-old from Chicago, was tragically shot and killed on August 5, 2016. The incident occurred in the Park Manor neighborhood, part of the city’s South Side, an area that has seen significant gun violence. Delance was struck by gunfire in…

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Tony Linton Thorton

Male, age 38 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a life was tragically cut short in Baltimore, Maryland. Tony Linton Thornton, a 38-year-old male, succumbed to a fatal bullet wound on Friday, August 5, 2016. He was undergoing surgery at a local hospital in an attempt to save his life…

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Elizabeth Williams

Female, age 49 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

On a summer evening in Detroit, what should have been a time of family remembrance turned into a tragedy that remains unsolved. Elizabeth Williams, a 49-year-old woman, was fatally shot on August 4, 2016. A native of Detroit, she had relocated to North…

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Demetrius V Walker

Male, age 43 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a grim discovery was made in Kansas City, Missouri, that marked the city's 61st homicide of the year. On the morning of Friday, August 5, 2016, the body of Demetrius V. Walker, a 43-year-old woman, was found behind a dumpster near the…

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Jerry Nickens

Male, age 54 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of a Kansas City neighborhood, leaving a family mourning and a community with unanswered questions. Jerry Nickens, a 54-year-old man, was inside a residence in the 4200 block of College Avenue on…

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Frank Watts

Male, age 52 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

Frank Watts, a 52-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on the night of Friday, August 5, 2016, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His death occurred during a violent evening in which three separate shootings were reported across the city. Watts was killed…

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Martha Bailey

Female, age 40 · Sheridan, Wyoming

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

Martha J. Bailey, a 40-year-old female of White ethnicity, passed away on August 5, 2016, in Sheridan, Wyoming. Known affectionately as “Marty,” she was a retired Navy sailor who had served for 20 years and was deeply respected for her strength, intelligence…

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Chijioke C. Agbakahi

Male, age 59 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a fatal shooting in Northwest Washington, D.C. claimed the life of 59-year-old Chijioke C. Agbakahi. The incident occurred on the evening of August 5th, at approximately 7 p.m., in the 5100 block of Georgia Avenue NW. Agbakahi was…

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Andre Singleton

Male, age 56 · Kansas City, Kansas

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the late summer of 2016, the life of Andre D. Singleton, a 56-year-old Black or African American man, was tragically cut short in Kansas City, Kansas. On the evening of Saturday, August 6, 2016, police were called to the Central Park Towers apartment…

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Dante Fields

Male, age 24 · Topeka, Kansas

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 5, 2016, the life of Dante Fields, a 24-year-old Black / African American male, was tragically cut short in Topeka, Kansas. Fields was leaving a bar in the southwest part of the city when he was fatally shot. The Topeka…

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Zackery Napper

Male, age 19 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a young man's life was cut tragically short in the Beechmont neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. On the night of August 5th, 19-year-old Zackery David Glenn Napper was found deceased in an alley off of South 3rd Street. He had…

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Antonio Patterson

Male, age 20 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a single act of violence cut short the life of Antonio Patterson, a 20-year-old Black / African American male from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the evening of Friday, August 5, 2016, in the vicinity of North 24th Place and West Capitol…

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Floyd Andrew Hathcoat

Male, age 73 · Henryetta, Oklahoma

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

On August 4, 2016, 73-year-old Floyd Andrew Hathcoat, a male, was killed in his rural home on Tiger Mountain, located in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. A neighbor discovered Mr. Hathcoat's body, and upon investigation, deputies found a second deceased individual…

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Terry Wetselline

Male, age 42 · Henryetta, Oklahoma

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the quiet rural landscape of McIntosh County, near Henryetta, Oklahoma, a grim discovery was made on August 4, 2016. Terry Alan Wetselline, a 42-year-old male, was found shot to death alongside 73-year-old Floyd Hathcoat at Hathcoat's residence on Tiger…

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Jaquez Ingram

Male, age 17 · Jackson, Mississippi

Killed Aug 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the life of 17-year-old Jaquez Ingram was tragically cut short in Jackson, Mississippi. On the night of Friday, August 5th, Ingram was caught in the violence of a double shooting that erupted in the north of the city. The young man, a…

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Dates are the day last seen (missing), the day of death, or when the date of death is unknown the day found or reported missing (deaths by force), the day found (unidentified and unclaimed), the victim's date of death (serial killers) and the day of the attack (mass murders). Solved, located, identified and claimed cases are not listed.