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Patrick Williams

Male · Gainesville, Florida

Killed Aug 9, 2010 · 16 years ago

On August 9, 2010, 38-year-old Patrick Williams was found shot on the front porch of a residence located at 1421 NE 20th Place in Gainesville, Florida. The shooting occurred around 10:30 PM, prompting a 911 call. Upon arrival, officers administered first aid…

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Eric Thomas

Male, age 39 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 9, 2010 · 16 years ago

On a summer evening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, events were set in motion that would tragically end a man's life. Eric L. Thomas, a 40-year-old male, was on the 3700 block of W. State St. on August 9, 2010, when he was shot. The violence of that encounter left…

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Christopher L. Dewey

Male, age 26 · Mahnomen, Minnesota

Killed Aug 9, 2010 · 16 years ago

On a cold February evening in 2009, Mahnomen County Sheriff's Deputy Christopher L. Dewey, a 26-year-old White / Caucasian male, responded to a call of a possible drunk driver and shots fired. This routine call would set in motion a tragic chain of events…

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LaCole Veronica Hines

Female, age 17 · Landover, Maryland

Killed Aug 9, 2010 · 16 years ago

LaCole Veronica Hines, a 17-year-old Black/African American female, was a new mother to a six-week-old baby boy in the summer of 2010. Her life was tragically cut short on August 9, 2010, in Landover, Maryland, a victim of gun violence. The events leading to…

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Iliaz Lomidze

Male, age 42 · Oakland, California

Found Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

Iliaz Lomidze, a 42-year-old man, was shot and killed on August 9, 2009, in Oakland, California. The incident took place in the early morning hours on the 2800 block of High Street. According to reports, Lomidze was standing on the sidewalk when he was shot…

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Carleton E Temple

age 26 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 9, 2009, a quiet street in Kansas City, Missouri, became the scene of a lingering mystery. Carleton E. Temple was discovered in the driver's seat of his white Cadillac in the 6600 block of Monroe. The engine of the vehicle…

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Antoine Thomas

Male, age 16 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Found Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

Antoine Charles Thomas Jr., a 16-year-old from the West End of Pittsburgh, was tragically killed on August 9, 2009. The incident occurred at his home in the 3700 block of Chartiers Avenue. Antoine was in the backyard with his family when he was shot in the…

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Frederick Johnson

Male, age 38 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the evening hours of September 10, 2018, Wilfred Johnson, a 43-year-old man, was returning to his home on North Millick Street in Philadelphia after finishing his shift as a SEPTA bus driver. His routine journey took a tragic turn when an unknown…

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Patrice Danille Comadore

Female, age 23 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

On an August night in 2009, the life of 23-year-old Patrice Danille Comadore, an African American mother and former employee of the New Orleans Sheriff Department, was tragically cut short. Two men, their faces obscured by bandanas, forced their way into her…

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Trevor Bobo

Male, age 19 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the late summer of 2009, the life of 19-year-old Trevor Bobo was tragically cut short in Memphis, Tennessee. An African American male, Bobo was fatally shot on August 9, 2009, leaving behind a young son. At the time of his death, he was working as a…

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Ernest Salazar

Male, age 48 · Pico Rivera, California

Killed Aug 9, 2009 · 17 years ago

Ernest Salazar was 48 years old when he died on Sunday, August 9, 2009, in Pico Rivera. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 9319 Beverly Road. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is…

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DreVon Proctor

Male, age 15 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early hours of a summer morning in Washington, D.C., the life of 15-year-old Dre'von Douglas Proctor was tragically cut short. On Saturday, August 9, 2008, at approximately 1:35 a.m., the young man was shot and killed at the intersection of Southern…

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Gregory Herndon

Male, age 41 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Gregory Herndon, age 41, was fatally shot on August 9, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. The incident occurred in the Roseland neighborhood, a part of Chicago that has often been associated with high crime rates and gang-related violence. Herndon was found with…

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George Nixon Blain

Male, age 30 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the summer of 2008, the life of a 30-year-old Black man, George Nixon Blain, was tragically cut short in Baltimore, Maryland. On the evening of August 9th, Blain was in the 1700 block of North Bradford Street when he became a victim of homicide. The…

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Adam Messmer

Male, age 20 · Columbus, Ohio

Found Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Adam Messmer, a 20-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, died on August 9, 2008, at Grant Medical Center. His death was marked as sudden and has been commemorated in several memorial platforms. He was born on August 26, 1987, and lived a relatively short life that…

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Paul Crawley Sr

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Paul Crawley Sr. was a 79-year-old man who was tragically killed on August 9, 2008, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The incident took place at 6730 Dante Avenue, where Crawley Sr. was shot. The homicide remains unsolved, and local law enforcement, including the…

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Paul Crawley

Male, age 79 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Found Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Paul Crawley Sr., a 79-year-old resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, was tragically killed on August 9, 2008. The incident took place at 6730 Dante Avenue in the city. Crawley was found shot, and the Cincinnati Police Department continues to treat the case as an…

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Candido Salazar

Male, age 43 · Paramount, California

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Candido Salazar, a 43-year-old Latino man, was tragically killed on August 9, 2008, in Paramount, California. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. in the 8000 block of Rose Street, where Salazar and his neighbor, Jose Villa, were having a barbecue in the…

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Natalie McCready

Female, age 32 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

On a summer night in Chester, Pennsylvania, the life of 32-year-old Natalie McCready was tragically cut short. On August 9, 2008, McCready, a female, was found shot to death near the corner of West Sixth and Lincoln Streets. Alongside her was the body of…

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Brock Boyer

Male, age 31 · St. Louis, Missouri

Killed Aug 9, 2008 · 18 years ago

Brock Boyer was 31 years old when he was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday, August 9, 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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Victoria Y Dysart

Female, age 22 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

Victoria Y. Dysart, aged 22, was shot and killed on August 9, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. The homicide took place in the early morning hours in the Brighton Park neighborhood, an area that was struggling with increased levels of violence during that time.…

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Gerald Wilson

Male, age 29 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

Gerald Wilson, age 29, was killed on August 9, 2007, in Chicago. His death was one of the numerous homicides that year, which marked an ongoing struggle with violence throughout the city. The incident was reported in the Chicago Police Department's crime…

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Michael Lucas

Male, age 41 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the late summer of 2007, the life of Michael Lucas, a 41-year-old African-American man, was tragically cut short. On August 9, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lucas became the victim of a homicide, a case that has remained unsolved for years. Details…

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Jayla Brown

Female, age 19 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

On what should have been a joyous celebration of her 19th birthday, Jayla Brown, a young Black woman from Pittsburgh, was tragically killed in a hail of gunfire in the early morning hours of August 9, 2007. She was the innocent victim of a targeted shooting…

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Charles Edward Jackson

Male, age 59 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

On a late summer evening in Denver, Colorado, the life of Charles Edward Jackson, a 59-year-old Black man, was brought to an abrupt and violent end. The date was August 9, 2007, and at approximately 10:50 p.m., in the parking lot of a Popeye's restaurant at…

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Michael Browne

Male, age 54 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the summer of 2007, the life of 54-year-old Michael B. Browne was tragically cut short in Richmond, Virginia. On August 9th, he became a victim of gun violence, a stark event that left a community searching for answers. The specific details of the shooting…

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Debra Renfors

Female, age 46 · Lansing, Michigan

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the summer of 2007, a wave of fear gripped the city of Lansing, Michigan, as a string of brutal murders targeting women unfolded. Among the victims was Debra Renfors, a 46-year-old woman who was trying to turn her life around. On August 9, 2007, her beaten…

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Fonessa Lynn Louise Bruyere

Female, age 17 · Winnipeg, Manitoba

Killed Aug 9, 2007 · 19 years ago

Fonassa Lynn Louise Bruyere, a 17-year-old First Nations girl from Sagkeeng First Nation, was remembered by her family as funny, affectionate and deeply connected to the people she loved. She enjoyed singing, writing poems and spending time with her…

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Sergio David Alvarenga

Male · Las Vegas, Nevada

Found Aug 9, 2005 · 21 years ago

On 8-9-05 at 1844 hours, LVMPD patrol officers along with medical personnel were dispatched to 1413 Manzanita Way reference a person being shot. The victim, later identified as Sergio Alvarenga, was discovered laying in the driveway of 1413 Manzanita Way…

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Gregory McKinney

Male, age 21 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed Aug 9, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 9, 2005, the body of twenty-one-year-old Gregory McKinney III was discovered in a wooded area near 1800 E. Tecumseh in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An investigation revealed that the young man had died from a single gunshot wound. His…

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Wayne Thomas Cotton

Male, age 56 · Kingston, Tennessee

Killed Aug 9, 2005 · 21 years ago

On a routine morning in Kingston, Tennessee, the life of a dedicated public servant was tragically cut short in a brazen and violent escape. Wayne Thomas 'Cotton' Morgan, a 56-year-old male correctional officer, was fatally shot on August 9, 2005, outside the…

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Latoya Nicole Johnson

Female, age 27 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Aug 9, 2004 · 22 years ago

Latoya Nicole Johnson, a 27-year-old Black female, was a dedicated police officer with the New Orleans Police Department for three years. Her life was tragically cut short on Monday, August 9, 2004, while she was in the line of duty. Johnson, a mother to a…

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Isaac Pearson

Male, age 39 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Aug 9, 2003 · 23 years ago

On a grim Thanksgiving morning in 2020, the discovery of a deceased man inside a Northwest Washington, D.C. apartment initiated a complex homicide investigation. The victim, a 39-year-old male named Edward Pearson, was found on a couch in an apartment in the…

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Rashed Caudle

Male, age 20 · Newport-news, Virginia

Killed Aug 9, 2003 · 23 years ago

Rashed Caudle was a 20-year-old Black man from Newport News, Virginia, who died on August 9, 2003. In the days after his death, the public record that surfaced most clearly was the grief: an obituary noting the loved ones left to carry his name forward…

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Mauricio Gonzalez

Male, age 41 · Paramount, California

Killed Aug 9, 2003 · 23 years ago

Mauricio Gonzalez, a 41-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on August 9, 2003, in Paramount, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Gonzalez was fatally shot on that fateful Saturday. The incident occurred in a…

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Pearle Cogswell

Female, age 66 · Milo, Maine

Killed Aug 9, 2002 · 24 years ago

Pearle Cogswell, a 66-year-old female from Milo, Maine, died on August 9, 2002. Investigators determined she was shot with a handgun inside the couple�s home by her husband, 75-year-old Eugene Cogswell, who then turned the gun on himself. The case was…

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Jedediah Harr

Male, age 22 · Columbia, South Carolina

Killed Aug 9, 2002 · 24 years ago

In the summer of 2002, the life of 22-year-old Jedediah Fitz Gerald Harr was tragically cut short in Columbia, South Carolina. On the evening of August 8th, an argument broke out in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse restaurant. The dispute involved Quincy…

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Eric Bradford Taylor

Male, age 31 · Masillon, Ohio

Killed Aug 9, 2002 · 24 years ago

Eric Bradford Taylor, a 31-year-old male officer with the Massillon Police Department, tragically lost his life on August 9, 2002. Taylor was shot and killed following a vehicle and foot pursuit of a suspect that ended near Cherry Road and First Street…

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Delores Williams

Female, age 70 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Aug 9, 2000 · 26 years ago

Delores Williams, a 70-year-old White female, was found with severe head trauma on August 7, 2000, in Columbus, Ohio. The injuries were caused by blunt force, and she succumbed to them two days later, on August 9, 2000. The incident took place at 3441…

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Nicholas Nick Samuel Markowitz

Male, age 15 · Goleta, California

Killed Aug 9, 2000 · 26 years ago

Nicholas "Nick" Samuel Markowitz, a 15-year-old from West Hills, Los Angeles, was tragically murdered on August 9, 2000, in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, California. His death was the result of a feud over a $1,200 drug debt between his older…

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James L Bullock Jr

Male, age 25 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Aug 9, 1999 · 27 years ago

On a summer night in Washington, D.C., the life of a young man was tragically cut short. James L. Bullock Jr., a 25-year-old African-American male, was found fatally shot inside a car on August 9, 1999. The incident occurred in the 1600 block of Olive Street…

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Lawrence Daigle

Male, age 54 · Leavenworth, Kansas

Killed Aug 9, 1998 · 28 years ago

In the late summer of 1998, a grim discovery was made along a quiet, remote road in Leavenworth County, Kansas, shattering the peace of the rural community. On the morning of August 9th, the bodies of Lawrence Daigle, a 54-year-old Caucasian male, and his…

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Teresa Daigle

Female, age 51 · Leavenworth, Kansas

Killed Aug 9, 1998 · 28 years ago

A quiet Sunday morning in Leavenworth County, Kansas, was shattered on August 9, 1998, with a grim discovery that would launch a decades-long mystery. Along a secluded stretch of Dakota Drive, the bodies of Teresa C. Daigle, a 51-year-old Caucasian female…

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Filberto Henry Cuesta

Male, age 26 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1998 · 28 years ago

Filberto Henry Cuesta Jr., a 26-year-old police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, tragically lost his life on August 9, 1998. Officer Cuesta was on duty, responding to a disturbance at a large party when he was ambushed. While waiting for backup…

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Barbara Tedrick

Female, age 59 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Aug 9, 1997 · 29 years ago

On August 9, 1997, Barbara Clemens Tedrick, a 59-year-old resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, was tragically murdered in a still-unsolved case. The incident occurred around 5:20 p.m. after Tedrick had returned from grocery shopping and was walking towards…

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Joshua Brewer

Male, age 18 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Aug 9, 1997 · 29 years ago

Caucasian / White Joshua Brewer, age 18, spent the late summer night of August 9, 1997 standing with friends at the southeast corner of SE Milwaukie Avenue and Powell Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. Around 10:24 p.m., a group of unidentified Asian men pulled…

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Michael Mckee

Male, age 42 · Dekalb, Mississippi

Killed Aug 9, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the late hours of a Saturday night in Dekalb, Mississippi, a dedicated public servant, Sheriff Michael L. McKee, a 42-year-old Caucasian male, responded to a distress call that would tragically be his last. The call on August 9, 1997, led him to the…

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Shawndell Banks

Male, age 16 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Aug 9, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the early morning hours of August 9, 1995, 16-year-old Shawndell Banks, a Black male, was using a pay phone near the intersection of East 28th Avenue and Race Street in Denver, Colorado. While on the phone, an unknown individual approached him and shot him…

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