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Deaths by Force on August 7

716 open cases in our database happened on August 7. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (549)

Death by Force

Robert Carlos Urbina

Male, age 38 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2017 · 9 years ago

Robert Carlos Urbina, a 38-year-old Latino, was tragically shot and killed on August 7, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. The incident occurred in the 2000 block of East 8th Street. According to the Los Angeles County coroner’s records, officers responded to the…

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Bruce Donovan

Male, age 23 · Brooklyn, New York
Killed Aug 7, 2015 · 11 years ago

On the warm evening of August 7, 2015, a barbecue was underway at the Glenwood Houses in Brooklyn, New York. Among those enjoying the gathering was 23-year-old Bruce Donovan of Crown Heights. The festivities were tragically cut short when gunfire erupted…

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Pablo Bedoy

Male, age 29 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2015 · 11 years ago

Pablo Bedoy, a 29-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on August 7, 2015, in Pacoima, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Bedoy was fatally shot, marking another somber entry in the…

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Juan Meralla

Male · Miami, Florida
Killed Aug 7, 2015 · 11 years ago

Juan Meralla, a man from Miami, FL, was found dead on August 7, 2015, after barricading himself inside his home. According to reports, Meralla, who was suffering from bipolar disorder and depression, had threatened to harm himself before the incident. The…

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Jimmie Lee Jackson

Male, age 71 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2015 · 11 years ago

Jimmie Lee Jackson was 71 years old when he was found dead on Friday, August 7, 2015, in Westlake, just west of downtown Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at his home on South Bonnie Brae Street.…

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Timothy Belisle

Male, age 43 · Casco-township, Michigan
Killed Aug 7, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the summer of 2014, a senseless argument over something as trivial as broken glass in a road escalated into a fatal encounter for Timothy Belisle. The 43-year-old man was shot and killed on August 7, 2014, at the Americana Estates mobile home park in Casco…

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Manuel Mateo

Male, age 50 · Buffalo, New York
Killed Aug 7, 2014 · 12 years ago

On a summer afternoon in Buffalo, New York, the life of 50-year-old Manuel Mateo was brought to a violent end. On August 7, 2014, Mateo was fatally shot on Herkimer Street on the city's West Side. The brazen daytime shooting sent ripples of fear and concern…

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Fidel Arce Fernandez

Male, age 27 · Hawaiian-gardens, California
Killed Aug 7, 2014 · 12 years ago

Fidel Arce Fernandez, a 27-year-old resident of Hawaiian Gardens, California, tragically lost his life on August 7, 2014. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Fernandez was fatally shot in Hawaiian Gardens. The incident occurred on a…

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Michael Palmer

Male, age 50 · Chester, Pennsylvania
Killed Aug 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

On August 7, 2008, Michael Palmer, a 50-year-old African American male from Chester, Pennsylvania, was found deceased under circumstances that prompted a criminal investigation. Details surrounding his death indicate that law enforcement agencies were…

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Louis Matthews

Male, age 55 · Inglewood, California
Killed Aug 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Louis Matthews was 55 years old when he died on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, in Inglewood. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 418 North La Brea Avenue. His death was ruled a homicide, and it…

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Manuel Santana

Male, age 46 · Houston, Texas
Killed Aug 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Manuel Santana was 46 years old when he was killed in Houston on Thursday, August 7, 2008. The Houston Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Houston through 2017, lists it as a…

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Jeffery Burgess

Male, age 46 · St. Louis, Missouri
Killed Aug 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Jeffery Burgess was 46 years old when he was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday, August 7, 2008. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis from…

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Daniel Duren

Male, age 19 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2005 · 21 years ago

Daniel D. Duren, a 19-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, tragically lost his life on August 7, 2005. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Daniel was fatally shot in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The incident occurred on a…

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Monee Andrea Givens

Female, age 3 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2005 · 21 years ago

Monee Andrea Givens was three years old when she died on Sunday, August 7, 2005. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force trauma. Her death was ruled a homicide. The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report…

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Charles Richard Nelson Jr.

Male, age 47 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 7, 2002 · 24 years ago

Charles Richard Nelson Jr. was 47 years old when he died on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department…

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Arthur Lee Jones

Male · Spalding, Georgia
Killed Aug 7, 1990 · 36 years ago

In the late summer of 1990, on a quiet dirt road in Spalding County, Georgia, a grim discovery was made. The bodies of Arthur Lee Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne were found inside a car on August 7th. Both had been shot in the head at close range. The…

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Linda Lisa Seaborne

Female · Spalding, Georgia
Killed Aug 7, 1990 · 36 years ago

On August 7, 1990, the bodies of Linda Lisa Seaborne, a female, and Arthur Lee Jones were discovered in a car on a desolate dirt road in Spalding County, Georgia. Both had been fatally shot. Seaborne was found in the driver's seat, slumped over Jones, having…

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Gene Dietz

Male, age 55 · Tucson, Arizona
Killed Aug 7, 1989 · 37 years ago

In the summer of 1989, a troubled relationship spiraled into a tragic day of violence that ended the life of 55-year-old Gene Dietz. On the morning of August 7th, at the automotive paint and body shop he owned with his family in Tucson, Arizona, the simmering…

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Gary Seslar

Male, age 19 · Gaston, Oregon
Killed Aug 7, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the quiet, rural community of Gaston, Oregon, the summer of 1977 was shattered by a brutal and calculated act of violence. On August 7, Gary Seslar, a 19-year-old male, was found murdered, the victim of an execution-style shooting. He was not the only one…

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Delmar Bright

Male, age 29 · Las Vegas, Nevada
Killed Aug 7, 1975 · 51 years ago

Delmar Bright, a 29-year-old porter at the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, was tragically murdered on August 7, 1975. Bright, whose ethnicity is not explicitly detailed in the sources, was found deceased in his apartment on August 11, 1975. His body was…

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John Motte

Male · Indian-key, Florida
Killed Aug 7, 1840 · 186 years ago

On August 7, 1840, John Motte, a white male, was tragically killed during the Indian Key Massacre in Indian Key, Florida. This event was part of the broader conflict known as the Seminole Wars. The attack occurred in the early hours of the morning when a…

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