Deaths by Force on December 17

Deaths by Force (461)

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Mary Grayson

Female, age 36 · Cleveland, Ohio

Killed Dec 17, 1969 · 57 years ago

Mary Grayson, a 36-year-old woman from Cleveland, Ohio, passed away on December 17, 1969. Though the details surrounding her death remain scarce in public records, the loss of a woman at such a young age is a tragedy that leaves behind countless unanswered…

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Donna Kimmey

Female, age 22 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Dec 17, 1962 · 64 years ago

On December 17, 1962, the life of a 22-year-old Caucasian stewardess named Donna Kimmey was tragically cut short. Her body was discovered in Kenner, Louisiana, where it was determined she had been strangled. The investigation into her death would eventually…

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Thomas Jefferson Jeff Tomlinson

Male · Gonzales, Texas

Killed Dec 17, 1910 · 116 years ago

Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Tomlinson, a constable in Gonzales County, Texas, met a tragic end on December 17, 1910. He was found dead with two gunshot wounds just below his heart. The incident occurred while he was investigating a group of intoxicated…

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Bryon Merritt

Male, age 29 · Beaumont, Texas

Killed Dec 17, 1905 · 121 years ago

On December 17, 1905, Bryon Merritt, a 29-year-old police officer with the Beaumont Police Department in Texas, was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man. Officer Merritt, who was also a motorman, had brought his streetcar to a stop just in front…

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B.G.E. Daughtry

Male, age 45 · Westbrook-township, North Carolina

Killed Dec 17, 1903 · 123 years ago

Deputy Sheriff B. G. E. Daughtry, aged 45, was fatally wounded on December 17, 1903, while assisting a Deputy United States Marshal in Westbrook Township, North Carolina. The incident occurred when they were serving a capias on a man who had failed to appear…

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Brian Free

Male, age 24 · Oxon-hill, Maryland

Killed Dec 17, 2024 · 2 years ago

On the evening of December 17, 2024, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of a neighborhood in Forest Heights, Maryland, leaving two young men dead. One of the victims was identified as 24-year-old Brian Freeman of Forest Heights. When officers from the…

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Charles Graham Jr.

Male, age 26 · Towson, Maryland

Killed Dec 17, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the early evening of a Tuesday in Towson, Maryland, a violent sequence of events shattered the calm of the 8500 block of Loch Raven Boulevard. On December 17, 2024, a vehicle carrying ten people became the target of a mass shooting. The chaotic scene…

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Geriee Stephens

Male, age 33 · Inidanola, Mississippi

Killed Dec 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the winter of 2023, a shooting in Indianola, Mississippi, claimed the life of Germaniee Stephens. On the afternoon of Sunday, December 17th, the 33-year-old male sustained multiple gunshot wounds in a violent incident that unfolded on Torino Drive. He was…

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John McGee

Male, age 33 · Lakeland, Florida

Killed Dec 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

John Daniel McGee, a 33-year-old resident of Lakeland, Florida, tragically lost his life on December 17, 2022. McGee, known by the nickname "Bang Bang," was a known gang member. His death was the result of a shooting incident that occurred in the Secret Cove…

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Kshune Dewayne Brown

Male, age 26 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Dec 17, 2020 · 6 years ago

On a cold December evening in Birmingham, Alabama, the life of 26-year-old Kshune Dewayne Brown was tragically cut short. On December 17, 2020, at approximately 4:48 PM, officers were called to the 4400 block of Carver Avenue in the Wylam neighborhood, where…

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Anthony Scott

Male, age 24 · Homestead, Florida

Killed Dec 17, 2020 · 6 years ago

Anthony Scott, a 24-year-old resident of Homestead, FL, tragically lost his life on December 17, 2020, following a violent incident in South Miami-Dade. The events unfolded in the early hours of the morning, around 2 a.m., when Scott and another individual…

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Aiden Smith

Male, age 15 · La-crescenta, California

Killed Dec 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

Aiden Smith, a 15-year-old resident of La Crescenta, California, tragically passed away on December 17, 2019. Aiden was a student at Crescenta Valley High School, where his death deeply affected the school community. The cause of his death was determined to…

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Charlene Allbright

Female, age 47 · Jackson, Tennessee

Killed Dec 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the early morning hours of a December day in Jackson, Tennessee, the life of 47-year-old Charlene Allbright was tragically cut short. On December 17, 2019, at approximately 4:15 a.m., she was fatally shot inside her own home in the eastern part of the…

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Lionel Davis

Male, age 25 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Dec 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the winter of 2019, the life of 25-year-old Lionel Davis, an African American male, was tragically cut short in Memphis, Tennessee. On December 17, his death was ruled a homicide, launching an extensive investigation by the Memphis Police Department. The…

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George Angel Garcia

Male, age 43 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Dec 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

On the morning of Tuesday, December 17, 2019, the body of George Angel Garcia, a 43-year-old Latino man, was discovered near a set of railroad tracks in the San Fernando Valley. The grim finding was made in an industrial area within the Valley Glen…

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Timothy Allen Johnson

Male, age 55 · Lancaster, California

Killed Dec 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

Timothy Allen Johnson was 55 years old when he died on Tuesday, December 17, 2019, after being stabbed inside California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds…

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Rigoberto Gonzalez Huerta

Male, age 52 · Huntington Park, California

Killed Dec 17, 2017 · 9 years ago

On Sunday, December 17, 2017, fifty-two-year-old Rigoberto Gonzalez Huerta lost his life in the industrial and residential city of Huntington Park, California. Emergency responders and officers with the Huntington Park Police Department were called to the…

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Christopher Jones

Male, age 34 · Hopewell, Virginia

Killed Dec 17, 2015 · 11 years ago

Christopher Lomont Jones was a 34-year-old man from Hopewell, Virginia, whose life ended on Thursday, December 17, 2015, at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. The only widely available public notice of his passing is a brief obituary entry that records…

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Breon Stewart

Female, age 23 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Dec 17, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the winter of 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the life of 23-year-old Breon Stewart, an African American woman, was tragically cut short. On the night of December 16th, she and her 25-year-old companion, Lionel Delpit III, were discovered in a Chrysler PT…

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Mickey Liposchok

Male, age 52 · Port-vue, Pennsylvania

Killed Dec 17, 2013 · 13 years ago

In the quiet borough of Port Vue, Pennsylvania, a heartbreaking story unfolded in December of 2013, culminating in the deaths of a father and his son. Mickey J. Liposchok, a 52-year-old male, was found deceased in his home on New York Avenue on the morning of…

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Ronald Christian Heskee

Male, age 33 · North-brentwood, Maryland

Killed Dec 17, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the quiet neighborhood of North Brentwood, Maryland, the life of 33-year-old Ronald Christian Heskee was cut short on a Friday night in December of 2010. A male victim of a fatal gunshot wound, he was discovered by Prince George's County police in his home…

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Rochelle Chevalier

Female, age 49 · Unincorporated Santa Susana Mountains, California

Killed Dec 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

Rochelle Chevalier was 49 years old when she died on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in the unincorporated Santa Susana Mountains area of Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force…

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Jakobe Mildton

Male, age 33 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Dec 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

Jakobe Mildton was 33 years old when he was killed in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 17, 2008. The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit investigated, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Atlanta from 2007 through 2017…

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Maria Delapaz

Female, age 34 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Dec 17, 2004 · 22 years ago

Maria Delapaz was 34 years old when she died on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force trauma. The public record does not give the address where she was hurt. Her death was…

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Tony Pollock

Male, age 24 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Dec 17, 1985 · 41 years ago

On a cold December day in 1985, the life of a young man was tragically cut short in a Denver apartment building. Twenty-four-year-old Tony Pollock, a white male, was found deceased in a stairwell on the 1900 block of Ulster Street on December 17th of that…

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David Eugene Foster

Male, age 43 · Gold Beach, Oregon

Killed Dec 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the quiet coastal community of Gold Beach, Oregon, the life of 43-year-old male, Deputy Sheriff David Eugene Foster, was tragically cut short on December 17, 1984. On that day, Deputy Foster was responding to a domestic disturbance call, a situation law…

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Kirby Shell

Male, age 70 · Franklin, Mississippi

Killed Dec 17, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the winter of 1978, a dedicated public servant, 70-year-old Deputy Sheriff Kirby Shell, met a tragic and untimely end in the wooded expanse of the Homochitto National Forest in Franklin County, Mississippi. A male with 18 years of service with the Franklin…

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Elijah Pevito

Male, age 35 · Beaumont, Texas

Killed Dec 17, 1905 · 121 years ago

Deputy Constable Elijah Pevito, aged 35, was shot and killed on December 17, 1905, in Beaumont, Texas. Pevito, who served in the Jefferson County Constable's Office - Precinct 1, responded to the scene of the murder of Officer Bryon Merritt of the Beaumont…

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George Brown

Male, age 35 · Oakland, California

Killed Dec 17, 1904 · 122 years ago

George W. Brown, a 35-year-old police officer from Oakland, California, tragically lost his life on December 17, 1904. Officer Brown was on duty when he encountered a suspect who had recently committed a robbery. The suspect, fearing arrest, opened fire on…

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