Deaths by Force on January 25

Deaths by Force (427)

Death by Force10th anniversary

Trequon D. Wade

Male, age 16 · Allentown, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 25, 2016 · 10 years ago

On a cold January evening in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a dispute over a stolen cellphone tragically escalated, ending the life of 16-year-old Trequon D. Wade. The young Black male was shot in the 300 block of Ridge Avenue on January 25, 2016. Rushed to Lehigh…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Thomas Simmons

Male, age 35 · Chattanooga, Tennessee

Killed Jan 25, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the fading daylight of a January afternoon in 2016, the life of Thomas Simmons, a 20-year-old Black male, was tragically cut short on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On Monday, January 25th, at approximately 2:48 p.m., Simmons was walking down Sheridan…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Timothy Bowden

Male, age 26 · San Diego, California

Found Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

On January 25, 2011, at around 10:49 p.m., Timothy Bowden, age 26, was shot multiple times while walking in the 4700 block of Logan Avenue in San Diego, California. He had been returning to a friend's apartment after visiting a nearby grocery store when he…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Bingham Berresford

Male, age 64 · Oakland, California

Found Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

Bingham "Berry" Berresford, aged 64, was found dead in his home in West Oakland on January 25, 2011. Berresford, who served as the political director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, was discovered by police after his colleagues…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Kendrick Gibbs

Male, age 24 · New Orleans, Louisiana

Killed Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the quiet morning of January 25, 2011, violence shattered the calm of the Central City neighborhood in New Orleans. Kendrick Gibbs, a 24-year-old male, was discovered lifeless, the victim of a fatal shooting. The incident occurred near the intersection of…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

James Mullen

Male, age 35 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the winter of 2011, a somber discovery brought a painful end to a weeks-long search for a missing man. The body of 39-year-old James Mullen, a male resident of Oak Park, was found in his snow-covered Ford Explorer on the southwest side of Detroit. An…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Katherine Marie Pohjonen

Female, age 19 · Vadnais Heights, Minnesota

Killed Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the winter of 2011, concerns grew when 19-year-old Katherine Marie Pohjonen, a White female, failed to appear for work in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota. A worried co-worker's call to the police on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, led to a grim discovery at the…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Emmery Munoz

Female, age 14 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jan 25, 2006 · 20 years ago

On the morning of Wednesday, January 25, 2006, an employee arrived at an industrial warehouse complex in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles and made a horrific discovery. Lying in the loading dock area of a commercial property in the 1500…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

Rachel Rivera

Female, age 48 · Oceanside, California

Found Jan 25, 2001 · 25 years ago

On January 25, 2001, Rachel Rivera, a 48-year-old woman from Oceanside, California, was found dead in an alley near her home. She had been both stabbed and shot, and her body was discovered in the evening around 8:49 p.m. Authorities were unable to determine…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

Ignacio De La Cruz

Male, age 25 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jan 25, 2001 · 25 years ago

Ignacio De La Cruz was 25 years old when he died on Thursday, January 25, 2001, in Winnetka, a neighborhood in the west San Fernando Valley. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at Winnetka…

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Death by Force40th anniversary

Natalie Blanche Holley

Female, age 25 · Tampa, Florida

Killed Jan 25, 1986 · 40 years ago

Natalie Blanche Holley, a 25-year-old white female, was tragically murdered on January 25, 1986. She was the night manager at a Church's Fried Chicken restaurant in Tampa, Florida. After finishing her shift and locking up the store, she left around 1:30 a.m.…

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Death by Force45th anniversary

Cindy Cook

Female, age 16 · Cold Springs, Nevada

Killed Jan 25, 1981 · 45 years ago

Cindy Cook, a 16-year-old girl from Lemmon Valley, Nevada, was tragically found murdered on January 25, 1981. The day prior, Cindy had been last seen hitchhiking from her home to a nearby arcade in the Lemmon Valley shopping center. She left her home at…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Zeddrick Treshun Washington

Male, age 15 · Jackson, Mississippi

Killed Jan 25, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the winter of 2021, the life of 15-year-old Zeddrick Treshun Washington was tragically cut short on a street in Jackson, Mississippi. On the evening of January 25th, the young male was fatally shot on Buena Vista Avenue. The incident was quickly classified…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Kerin Quintanilla Ganuza

Male, age 31 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Jan 25, 2021 · 5 years ago

Kerin Quintanilla Ganuza, a 31-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on January 25, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Kerin was shot near 1629 W. 37th Place in Exposition Park.…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Victor Bernal

Male, age 19 · Millville, New Jersey

Killed Jan 25, 2016 · 10 years ago

On the morning of January 25, 2016, Victor Bernal, a 19-year-old male from Millville, New Jersey, sat in a car parked outside his family's home in the Country Meadows Mobile Home Park on South 2nd Street while his stepfather cleaned out a minivan nearby. A…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jermaine Carnell Murray Jr

Male, age 17 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Jan 25, 2016 · 10 years ago

Jermaine Carnell Murray Jr., a 17-year-old teenager from Los Angeles, California, was tragically shot and killed on January 25, 2016. The incident occurred in the 8300 block of South Main Street in the Florence neighborhood. According to the Los Angeles…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Heddy Blankenship

Female, age 41 · Taylorsville, North Carolina

Killed Jan 25, 2016 · 10 years ago

Heddy Marie Steidl Blankenship, a 41-year-old woman from Taylorsville, NC, passed away unexpectedly on January 25, 2016. Born on October 22, 1974, in Atlanta, GA, she was a proud US Marine veteran and worked for the Department of Family and Children Services.…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Esquivel Castillo

Male, age 51 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jan 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

Esquivel Castillo was 51 years old when he died on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, in the Central-Alameda neighborhood of South Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma near 55th Street…

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Death by Force30th anniversary

Alvaro Ramirez-Avila

Male, age 24 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jan 25, 1996 · 30 years ago

In the pre-dawn hours of a Thursday in January 1996, the streets of downtown Portland were disturbed by the sound of a fatal gunshot. Alvaro Ramirez-Avila, a 24-year-old Hispanic male, was shot and killed in the street on Southwest Alder, between 4th and 5th…

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Death by Force115th anniversary

John A. Mcclure

Male, age 50 · Abo, New Mexico

Killed Jan 25, 1911 · 115 years ago

Special Agent J.A. McClure of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Police Department met a tragic end on January 25, 1911, while attempting to arrest several men accused of stealing corn from a train near Abo, New Mexico. McClure and his partner had…

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Amanda Smith

Female, age 23 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

A quiet Sunday evening in Fayetteville, North Carolina, turned tragic on January 25, 2026, ending in the deaths of three family members, including 23-year-old Amanda Smith. Amanda, a White female, was inside her home in the 5200 block of N. Sumac Circle with…

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Brent Adams

Male, age 22 · Painesville, Ohio

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet city of Painesville, Ohio, a burst of violence on the evening of January 25, 2026, shattered the winter calm and ultimately claimed the life of 22-year-old Brent Adams. The incident, a shooting at the Jackson Towers apartment complex on West…

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Chaterez Phillips

Male, age 22 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In a chaotic and tragic series of events on January 25, 2026, a 22-year-old man named Chaterez Phillips died in East Point, a city in the Atlanta metropolitan area. His death was the culmination of a police pursuit that began when officers identified him as a…

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Cheri Smith

Female, age 50 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On a quiet Sunday night in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a domestic dispute escalated into a tragedy that claimed the lives of a mother and her two adult children. The incident unfolded on January 25, 2026, at a residence in the 5200 block of North Sumac…

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David Green

Male, age 21 · Akron, Ohio

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the early evening of January 25, 2026, the life of 21-year-old David Green was tragically cut short in Akron, Ohio. First responders were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 400 block of Sherman Street around 6:50 p.m. following reports of a…

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Davieon Talley

Male, age 18 · Painesville, Ohio

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On the evening of January 25, 2026, in Painesville, Ohio, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of the Jackson Towers Apartment Complex on West Jackson Street, leaving a community in shock and a young life cut short. Eighteen-year-old Davieon Talley was…

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Eduardo Contreras

Male, age 35 · El Paso, Texas

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Socorro, a suburb of El Paso, Texas, the life of 35-year-old Eduardo Isaias Contreras was tragically cut short on the afternoon of January 25, 2026. Authorities were called to a residence on the 10500 block of Monte Alto, where they…

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Emmanuel Jackson

Male, age 20 · Newport News, Virginia

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

A journey to help a friend move into a new apartment ended in tragedy for 20-year-old Emmanuel Jackson. On the night of January 25, 2026, in Newport News, Virginia, Jackson, a resident of St. Robert, Missouri, was fatally shot inside an apartment on Bellows…

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Erin Poole

Male, age 29 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In a quiet Fayetteville, North Carolina neighborhood, the evening of January 25, 2026, was shattered by violence that claimed the lives of three family members. Erin Poole, a 29-year-old White male, was fatally shot inside his home on North Sumac Circle. The…

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Florence McCrea

Female, age 56 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On a quiet Sunday night in Richmond, Virginia, a knock at the door turned deadly for a beloved mother of four. Florence McCrea, a 56-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot on January 25, 2026, in an act of violence that marked the city's first homicide of the…

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Frank Moore

Male, age 32 · Yazoo City, Mississippi

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet city of Yazoo City, Mississippi, a burst of violence on January 25, 2026, cut short the life of 32-year-old Frank Moore. The incident, which also left a woman wounded, unfolded in the 300 block of Clay Avenue, north of the downtown area. When…

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Gianni Reyes

Male, age 4 · Joliet, Illinois

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On a cold January morning in Joliet, Illinois, the life of 4-year-old Gianni Reyes was tragically cut short. On January 25, 2026, Gianni and his 36-year-old mother, Joselynn Diaz-Garcia, were found with fatal gunshot wounds in the backyard of their home on…

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Israel Castrejon Trejo

Male, age 27 · Meridian, Idaho

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On a late Sunday afternoon in Meridian, Idaho, a violent encounter in a parking lot cut short the life of 27-year-old Israel Castrejon Trejo of Nampa. The date was January 25, 2026, when multiple 911 calls flooded into the Meridian Police Department around…

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Jeffrey Wayne Milbrandt

Male, age 63 · Rochester, Minnesota

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet city of Rochester, Minnesota, the life of 63-year-old Jeffrey Wayne Milbrandt, a beloved husband, father, and grandfather, was tragically cut short on the snowy evening of January 25, 2026. What began as a planned conversation between a father…

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Jiffery T Jones

Male, age 48 · South Bend, Indiana

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 25, 2026, the city of South Bend, Indiana, was rattled by a fatal shooting. Jiffery T. Jones, a 48-year-old man, was discovered with a gunshot wound and, despite efforts to save him, was pronounced dead at the…

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John Glenn Martinez

Male, age 26 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On the evening of Sunday, January 25, 2026, a sense of unease settled over a west Charlotte neighborhood as the sound of gunshots pierced the frigid air. John Glenn Martinez, a 26-year-old man, was in the area working as a food delivery driver for DoorDash.…

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Joselynn Diaz-Garcia

Female, age 36 · Joliet, Illinois

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Joliet, Illinois, a tragedy unfolded on the morning of January 25, 2026, ending the life of 36-year-old Joselynn Diaz-Garcia. A mother, she was found unresponsive in the backyard of her residence on Garnsey Avenue, the victim of an…

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Kenneth Keller

Male, age 58 · Roy, Utah

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Roy, Utah, a Sunday morning was shattered by violence that ended the life of 58-year-old Kenneth Keller. On January 25, 2026, Keller confronted two individuals he suspected of burglarizing vehicles in his neighborhood on the 4200…

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Keon Gill

Male, age 44 · Bronx, New York

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On what should have been a joyous occasion, Keon Gill, a 43-year-old man, was fatally shot in the Bronx in the early morning hours of January 25, 2026, the very day he was celebrating his birthday. Gill, a resident of Middletown, New York, had been at a party…

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Lane Allen

Male, age 34 · Prairie Township, Ohio

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

On the evening of January 25, 2026, Lane Michael Allen, a 34-year-old White male from Radnor, Ohio, was fatally shot during a confrontation at an apartment complex in Prairie Township, Franklin County. What began as a visit to purchase narcotics escalated…

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Luis Sotero Herrera

Male, age 34 · Madison, Wisconsin

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

Luis Sotero Herrera, a 34-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Madison, Wisconsin, was killed during the early morning hours of January 25, 2026, in a shooting on the city’s south side. At approximately 3:30 a.m., Madison police were dispatched to the 400 block…

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Michael Arnold

Male, age 68 · Oak Forest, Illinois

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Oak Forest, Illinois, a grim discovery was made on the evening of Friday, January 23, 2026. Michael Arnold, a 68-year-old Caucasian male, was found unresponsive inside his residence on the 15000 block of Sunset Avenue. First…

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Samuel Dingle

Male, age 45 · North Miami Beach, Florida

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the early hours of January 25, 2026, a quiet North Miami Beach neighborhood was disturbed by the sound of gunfire that would leave one man dead and another hospitalized. The incident unfolded inside a short-term rental property on Northeast 157th Street…

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Shekela Woodard

Female, age 29 · Fitzgerald, Georgia

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 25, 2026, the life of 29-year-old Shekela Woodard was tragically cut short in Fitzgerald, Georgia. A gathering at a home on Sullivan Court, filled with the sounds of a party, was shattered by gunfire. When…

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Teonia Stokes

Female, age 22 · Monroe, Georgia

Killed Jan 25, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of January 25, 2026, the life of 22-year-old Teonia Stokes, an African American woman, was tragically cut short in Monroe, Georgia. Seven months pregnant with a baby boy, Stokes was fatally shot inside a residence on GW Carver Drive…

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Hernandis Harmon

Male, age 25 · Phenix City, Alabama

Killed Jan 25, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the early morning hours of January 25, 2025, the life of 25-year-old Hernandis Harmon, a Black male, was tragically cut short in Phenix City, Alabama. Harmon was discovered in the 400 block of Highway 165, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. First…

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Travis Upshaw

Male, age 42 · Pittsview, Alabama

Killed Jan 25, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the quiet community of Pittsview, Alabama, the life of 42-year-old Travis Upshaw was tragically cut short on the night of Saturday, January 25, 2025. A male resident of the area, Upshaw was found deceased near the intersection of Grant Circle and Upshaw…

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Manuel Alberto Villafan

Male, age 20 · Colorado Springs, Colorado

Killed Jan 25, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the quiet neighborhood near Memorial Park in Colorado Springs, the morning of January 25, 2025, was shattered by the sound of gunfire. When police responded to reports of a shooting in the 800 block of South Union Boulevard around 8:15 a.m., they…

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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.