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Deaths by Force on January 26

706 open cases in our database happened on January 26. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (493)

Death by Force

Deandre Phillips

Male, age 24 · Atlanta, Georgia
Killed Jan 26, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the evening hours of January 26, 2017, a 24-year-old Black man named Deaundre Phillips lost his life in the parking lot of an Atlanta Police Department annex on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. Phillips, a father to a young child, was sitting alone in a…

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David Echeverria

Male, age 46 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jan 26, 2017 · 9 years ago

David Echeverria was 46 years old when he died on Thursday, January 26, 2017, in Pacoima, in the northeast San Fernando Valley. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 13700 Paxton Street.…

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Robert Lee Hayes

Male, age 50 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jan 26, 2017 · 9 years ago

Robert Lee Hayes was 50 years old when he was found dead on Friday, January 27, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. Coroner's records list his date of death as Thursday, January 26. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab…

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Brandon Mitchell

Male, age 29 · Kansas-city, Missouri
Killed Jan 26, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the cold of a late January evening in Kansas City, Missouri, the life of 29-year-old Brandon Mitchell was tragically cut short. On Monday, January 26, 2015, Mitchell was discovered in a yard, having sustained fatal injuries from gunfire. The specific…

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Phillip Perea

Male, age 41 · Manhattan, New York
Killed Jan 26, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the winter of 2015, a man named Phillip Perea, aged 41, ended his life in a tragic and public manner on a Monday morning in Manhattan. His death, which occurred outside the News Corp. building, the headquarters of Fox News, was the culmination of a…

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Robert Gonzalez

Male, age 39 · Pueblo, Colorado
Killed Jan 26, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the late hours of a March evening in Pueblo, Colorado, a domestic disturbance escalated into a fatal encounter that ended the life of Robert James Gonzales, a 23-year-old male. The events of March 5, 2014, began to unfold when Pueblo police officers were…

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Miguel Navarette

Male, age 15 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Jan 26, 2014 · 12 years ago

Miguel Navarette, a 15-year-old Hispanic male, was tragically killed on January 26, 2014, in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL. The incident occurred around 4:50 p.m. when Miguel was standing outside a car parked on 30th Street near Kedvale…

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Ed Allen

Male, age 52 · Spalding, Georgia
Killed Jan 26, 1995 · 31 years ago

On the evening of January 26, 1995, a robbery at Roy's Bait Shop in Griffin, Georgia, turned fatal, ending the life of the store's owner, 52-year-old Ed Allen, a Caucasian male. The events unfolded at approximately 8:45 p.m. when a man, later identified as…

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Dan Thomas

Male, age 47 · Portland, Oregon
Killed Jan 26, 1994 · 32 years ago

On the evening of January 26, 1994, a knock at the door of his North Williams Avenue home would tragically lead to the death of 47-year-old Dan Merton Thomas, a Caucasian male. At approximately 6:30 p.m., his wife answered the door to an unknown male who was…

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Dan Merton Thomas

Male, age 47 · Portland, Oregon
Killed Jan 26, 1994 · 32 years ago

In the early evening of January 26, 1994, a knock at the door of their North Williams Avenue home forever altered the life of Dan Merton Thomas's wife. At approximately 6:30 p.m., she opened the door to an unknown male who was armed with a handgun. The man…

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Thomas Probst

Male · Fair-oaks, California
Killed Jan 26, 1989 · 37 years ago

On January 26, 1989, Thomas Probst was found dead in his home in Fair Oaks, California. The tragic discovery was made by Donald Hobbs, a ten-year-old boy who lived in the house with his mother, Jeanine Copeland, and her companion, Thomas Probst. After…

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Carol Miller

Female, age 89 · Eugene, Oregon
Killed Jan 26, 1979 · 47 years ago

Carol Dudley Miller, 89, a white female, lived a quiet life in Eugene, Oregon, until her death on January 26, 1979, and was later named among four elderly patients authorities said were killed that year by a nursing-home orderly who used insulin overdoses.…

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Katie Smith

Female, age 17 · Nassau, Bahamas
Killed Jan 26, 1974 · 52 years ago

On January 26, 1974, 17-year-old American female tourist Katie Smith was murdered in Nassau, Bahamas. Katie Smith, a white teenager from Detroit, Michigan, was one of three American victims killed over a two-month span by a man later identified as Michaiah…

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