Death by Force

Celio Carrasco

Male, age 33 · Houston, Texas

Found Jan 5, 2008 · 18 years ago

Celio Carrasco, aged 33, was fatally shot on January 5, 2008, in Houston, Texas. The circumstances surrounding the homicide involved a targeted attack, but specific details regarding the motive remain unclear. The incident took place late at night, and…

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Angela Nixon

Female, age 46 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

On January 5, 2007, Angela Nixon, aged 46, was found murdered in Jacksonville, Florida. Her death was part of a series of violent incidents in the city during a period marked by rising crime rates. Angela Nixon's body was discovered in the Jacksonville area…

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Thomas Joseph Mackenney

Male, age 21 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the cold of a Baltimore winter, the life of 21-year-old Thomas Joseph Mackenney was cut short. On January 5, 2007, he was found fatally shot in the 5900 block of Northwood Drive, a quiet street near Chinquapin Run. An African-American male, Mackenney…

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Jamar Hickman

Male, age 23 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

Jamar Hickman, a 23-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on January 5, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Publicly available reporting on the circumstances of the shooting is sparse, but listings that compile unsolved homicides identify his death as a gun-related…

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Paula Wolfe

Female, age 47 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Found Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

Paula Wolfe, a 47-year-old resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, was tragically killed on January 5, 2007. She was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound at 1750 Gilbert Avenue in the city. The case remains unsolved, and local authorities have not yet identified a…

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Dontae Phillips

Male, age 21 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Found Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

On January 5, 2007, Dontae Phillips, a 21-year-old male, was shot and killed in Philadelphia. His death was part of a wave of violence that had swept across the city that year, contributing to an already high homicide rate. Phillips was gunned down in what…

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Cameron L. Pun Coleman

Male, age 24 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 5, 2007 · 19 years ago

On a cold January day in 2007, the life of 24-year-old Cameron L. 'Pun' Coleman was tragically cut short on the streets of Chester, Pennsylvania. The young man, a male resident of the city, succumbed to fatal injuries from gun violence on Friday, January 5…

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Willie Best

Male · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jan 5, 2005 · 21 years ago

On a cold Saturday evening in early January 2005, Willie Best, an African-American man living with his family in the Barry Farms housing project in Southeast Washington, D.C., made his way through the hallway of 1249 Eaton Road SE. Just months earlier, he and…

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Zachary Jackson

Male · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jan 5, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the early hours of a cold Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., a violent act set in motion a chain of events that would end in tragedy weeks later. On January 5, 2005, at approximately 1:00 am, a man named Zachary M. Jackson was driving his vehicle across…

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Kenneth Ekwenye

Male, age 45 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jan 5, 2004 · 22 years ago

Kenneth Ekwenye, a 45-year-old Black male, was found in the late afternoon of January 5, 2004, in the rear of the 1700 block of Lincoln Road NE, Washington, DC. He had been murdered, his discovery made at approximately 4 p.m. in a residential corridor that…

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Christina Denise Christie Outz

Female, age 34 · Union, North Carolina

Killed Jan 5, 2004 · 22 years ago

Christina Denise "Christie" Outz Parker, a 33-year-old woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, was born on September 13, 1970, in Mecklenburg County. She passed away on January 5, 2004. Christie was a loving and adorable person, remembered fondly by her family…

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Julia Sookran

Female, age 45 · Lytle, Texas

Killed Jan 5, 2004 · 22 years ago

On January 5, 2004, in Lytle, Texas, 45-year-old Julia Sookran was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend, 54-year-old Carlos Rodriguez, at a local bar and grill. The incident occurred following an argument between the two, during which Rodriguez drew a firearm and…

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Victor Moreno Jr.

Male, age 45 · El Monte, California

Killed Jan 5, 2004 · 22 years ago

Victor Moreno Jr. was 45 years old when he died on Monday, January 5, 2004, in the El Monte area of the San Gabriel Valley. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 11140 Kauffman St. His…

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Isom Rodgers

Male, age 22 · Oakland, California

Killed Jan 5, 2003 · 23 years ago

Isom Rodgers, a 22-year-old resident of Oakland, California, was tragically killed on January 5, 2003. Rodgers, also known by the nickname "Tank," was shot multiple times on West Street in Oakland. The autopsy revealed that he sustained gunshot wounds to his…

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Baby Girl Knight

Female · Palmdale, California

Killed Jan 5, 2002 · 24 years ago

On January 5, 2002, tragedy unfolded in the northern Los Angeles County city of Palmdale when authorities were alerted to the death of an infant girl. The child, identified in county records as Baby Girl Knight, was a white female newborn who was just days or…

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Marlon Nelson

Male, age 23 · Howey, Florida

Killed Jan 5, 2000 · 26 years ago

On January 5, 2000, 23-year-old Marlon Nelson was found dead in a gruesome homicide near Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. Nelson, who was last seen in Orlando earlier that day, was in the company of two unidentified men driving a blue Lexus. His body was…

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Richard O. Mendoza

Male, age 24 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Jan 5, 2000 · 26 years ago

Richard O. Mendoza, a 24-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on January 5, 2000, in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Mendoza was fatally shot. The incident occurred in the early hours of the…

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James Warren Lehmann

Male, age 42 · Riverside, California

Killed Jan 5, 1997 · 29 years ago

James Warren Lehmann Jr., a Deputy Sheriff with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, tragically lost his life on January 5, 1997, at the age of 42. Lehmann, along with his partner Deputy Michael Haugen, responded to a domestic violence call in the early…

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Karl Ridley

Male · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jan 5, 1994 · 32 years ago

Karl Ridley, a 56-year-old resident of Dayton, Ohio, was killed on January 5, 1994. His death has been listed as an unsolved homicide, and the case remains open. The incident occurred in Montgomery County, and the Dayton Police Department has continued to…

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Linda Ann Moody Armstrong

Female, age 35 · Wilmington, Delaware

Killed Jan 5, 1993 · 33 years ago

Linda Moody Armstrong was a 35-year-old Black/African American female whose death in Wilmington, Delaware, became a long-running cold case after she was found on January 5, 1993. Online law enforcement and news reports identify her as Linda Ann Moody or Linda…

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John Stewart

Null · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 5, 1993 · 33 years ago

On January 5, 1993, John Stewart was found dead in Columbus, Ohio, in what remains an unsolved homicide case. The incident took place in Franklin County, and there is limited information available regarding the exact circumstances of his death. The Ohio…

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Ruth Albert

Female · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jan 5, 1990 · 36 years ago

Ruth Albert, a Black female, was murdered on January 5, 1990, in Dayton, Ohio. She was found deceased in her home in Montgomery County, and her case has remained unsolved since that day. The homicide was initially investigated by the Dayton Police Department…

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Angela Maria Wilkerson

Female, age 22 · Suitland, Maryland

Killed Jan 5, 1987 · 39 years ago

Angela Maria Wilkerson, a 22-year-old Black woman, disappeared after being reported missing on January 5, 1987, and what began as a search for one young woman soon folded into something far darker. In Suitland, Maryland, a wooded area near the Bradbury…

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Florence McNamara

Female, age 57 · Santa-barbara, California

Killed Jan 5, 1985 · 41 years ago

Florence McNamara, aged 57, tragically lost her life on January 5, 1985, in Santa Barbara, California. The incident occurred at the family's ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, just north of Santa Barbara. On that fateful evening, Florence, along with her…

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David Palm

Male, age 50 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 5, 1984 · 42 years ago

On January 5, 1984, David Palm, a 50-year-old individual from Pennsylvania, tragically lost his life. The National Gun Violence Memorial lists David Palm among those who died from gun-related incidents on that date, indicating that his death was due to gun…

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Dalton Cawthray

Male, age 45 · Brazoria, Texas

Killed Jan 5, 1984 · 42 years ago

Correctional Officer Dalton B. Cawthray, aged 45, was accidentally shot and killed on January 5, 1984, while cleaning guns in the jail armory at the Clemens Unit in Brazoria, Texas. Officer Cawthray, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, was struck in the…

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Steven Leroy Mahan

Male, age 30 · Elk City, Oklahoma

Killed Jan 5, 1983 · 43 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 5, 1983, a routine check on a local motel in Elk City, Oklahoma, turned into a tragic event for Sergeant Steven Leroy Mahan. The 30-year-old male officer with the Elk City Police Department was making his usual rounds…

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Mary Pearl McCord

Female, age 25 · Montgomery, Alabama

Killed Jan 5, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the winter of 1982, the city of Montgomery, Alabama, was rocked by the tragic death of a dedicated public servant. Mary Pearl McCord, a 25-year-old Black / African American female detective with the Montgomery Police Department, lost her life in the line…

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Jenny Soo Chin

Female · Qeens, New York

Killed Jan 5, 1982 · 44 years ago

On January 5, 1982, Jenny Soo Chin, a woman of Asian descent, became the victim of a calculated plot to silence her voice. A former bookkeeper for the Candor Diamond Corporation, she had a close friendship with the company's comptroller, Margaret Barbera.…

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Tammy Williams

Female, age 17 · Brooklyn, Connecticut

Killed Jan 5, 1982 · 44 years ago

On a cold January day in 1982, the life of 17-year-old Tammy Williams, a White female from Brooklyn, Connecticut, was tragically cut short. On January 5th, while walking home from her boyfriend's house, she was abducted. Tammy was a student known for her warm…

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Frank Fontis

Male, age 49 · Key West, Florida

Killed Jan 5, 1979 · 47 years ago

Frank Fontis, a 49-year-old businessman, was found murdered in his home in Key West, Florida, on January 5, 1979. He was shot three times, and his body was discovered nude, indicating a violent and personal nature to the crime. Shortly after the murder, an…

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James Gaul

Male, age 36 · Fort-worth, Texas

Killed Jan 5, 1979 · 47 years ago

James C. Gaul, a 36-year-old male police officer with the Fort Worth Police Department, tragically died on January 10, 1979, five days after being shot during a shootout. Officer Gaul and another officer responded to a call reporting a man with a gun. As they…

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Robert White

Male, age 45 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Jan 5, 1973 · 53 years ago

Robert White, a 45-year-old White male, was tragically killed on January 5, 1973, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His death was classified as a homicide, and the circumstances surrounding the case remain unsolved. White was found strangled at 2035 Elm Street in…

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Ronald Carey

Male, age 29 · Concord-township, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 5, 1972 · 54 years ago

In the winter of 1972, a dedicated 29-year-old White male Delaware State Trooper named Ronald L. Carey found his life tragically cut short. On January 5th, he and his partner, Trooper David C. Yarrington, were investigating an armed robbery that had occurred…

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Mabel McCormick

Female, age 54 · Kountze, Texas

Killed Jan 5, 1972 · 54 years ago

Mabel McCormick, a 54-year-old woman, was tragically murdered on January 5, 1972, in Kountze, Hardin County, Texas. Mabel, who was of Caucasian ethnicity, owned an antique shop where the incident took place. On that fateful day, Mabel and her 3-year-old…

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Leslie Bowman

Female, age 3 · Kountze, Texas

Killed Jan 5, 1972 · 54 years ago

Leslie Bowman, a 3-year-old girl, tragically lost her life on January 5, 1972. The circumstances surrounding her death were both shocking and heartbreaking. Leslie, a young Caucasian girl, was found dead alongside her grandmother, Mabel McCormick, in what was…

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Bernard Buster Speyer

Male, age 47 · Hartford, Connecticut

Killed Jan 5, 1957 · 69 years ago

In the winter of 1957, a wave of fear had descended upon Hartford, Connecticut, as a string of violent robberies and murders plagued the community. On January 5th of that year, Bernard Buster Speyer, a 47-year-old White male, and his wife Ruth, became tragic…

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Ruth Speyer

Female, age 45 · Hartford, Connecticut

Killed Jan 5, 1957 · 69 years ago

On a cold January evening in 1957, the life of 45-year-old Ruth Speyer, a White female, was tragically cut short in an act of brutal violence that sent shockwaves through the community. On January 5th, Ruth and her husband, Bernard, were simply customers in a…

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Herman Sutton Barbrey

Male · Pender, North Carolina

Killed Jan 5, 1934 · 92 years ago

Herman Sutton Barbrey, a Special Agent with the Bureau of Prohibition, was born on August 28, 1897, in Sampson County, North Carolina. On January 3, 1934, Agent Barbrey, along with Special Agents C. C. Keyes and J. J. O'Dea, conducted a raid at the home of M.…

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Francis Buckley

Male · Manhattan, New York

Killed Jan 5, 1922 · 104 years ago

In the cold of a January evening in 1922, the life of New York City Police Detective Sergeant Francis J. M. Buckley was tragically cut short. A Caucasian male, Buckley was a dedicated officer working out of the 32nd Precinct in Harlem. On January 5th, he and…

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Miles Pearson

Male · Wilbanks, North Carolina

Killed Jan 5, 1922 · 104 years ago

On January 5, 1922, in the rural community of Wilbanks, North Carolina, the lifeless body of Annie Pearson, a 24-year-old African American woman, was discovered in the yard of her home. She had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the heart, and her remains had…

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James Keefe

Male, age 40 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jan 5, 1905 · 121 years ago

Detective James J. Keefe, a 40-year-old white male, was a dedicated member of the Chicago Police Department. On January 5, 1905, he tragically lost his life in the line of duty. Detective Keefe, along with other officers, was attempting to arrest a suspect…

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Antonio Cooley

Male, age 49 · Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Killed Jan 5, 2026 · this year

Antonio Cooley, 49, a man from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, was shot in the early hours of Monday, January 5, 2026, after police were called to the 300 block of Sunset Avenue for reports of gunfire. When officers arrived, they found him suffering from gunshot…

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David Solis

Male, age 19 · San Diego, California

Killed Jan 5, 2025 · 1 year ago

David Solis, a 19-year-old man from Tijuana, Mexico, was fatally shot on January 5, 2025, in the Lincoln Park district of San Diego. The incident occurred around 9:36 a.m. in the 300 block of Willie James Jones Avenue. Officers from the San Diego Police…

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F.G.

Male, age 14 · Atlantic City, New Jersey

Killed Jan 5, 2024 · 2 years ago

On the night of January 5, 2024, a 14-year-old male from Atlantic City, identified as F.G., was fatally wounded in a shooting. The incident occurred at approximately 10:48 p.m. on the 3300 block of Atlantic Avenue, where a disturbance involving several young…

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Shaheed Jones

Male, age 25 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 5, 2024 · 2 years ago

On a cold Friday morning, January 5, 2024, the life of 25-year-old Shaheed Jones was tragically cut short on the familiar streets of his own neighborhood. A Black male residing on North Smedley Street in Philadelphia, Jones was found at approximately 7:48…

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Christian Kotaro Van Duyn

Male · Lawton, Oklahoma

Killed Jan 5, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the winter of 2022, a heart-wrenching discovery was made in Lawton, Oklahoma, marking the tragic end of a young life. Christian Kotaro Van Duyn, a one-month-old male infant, was found deceased on January 5, 2022. The circumstances of his death were part of…

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Marc Alan Farnsworth

Male, age 45 · Pomona, California

Killed Jan 5, 2022 · 4 years ago

Marc Alan Farnsworth, a 45-year-old resident of Pomona, California, tragically lost his life on January 5, 2022. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Farnsworth was fatally shot near 738 E. Holt Avenue in Pomona. The…

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