Death by Force

Casey Long

Male, age 41 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

A 41-year-old man, Casey Long of Clinton Township, was fatally beaten in Detroit on December 30, 2011. His last known whereabouts, according to relatives, was the Oakland Mall in Troy where he had planned to meet with friends. Long was discovered with…

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Orvin Hambright

Male, age 44 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the cold winter of 2012 in Detroit, Michigan, a man's life was cut short, leaving behind a family to grieve and a community with unanswered questions. Orvin Hambright, a 44-year-old male, was found dead on January 7, 2012. His body was located at 8440 John…

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Cortez Jones

Male, age 22 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

In January 2012, the passing of a man named Cortez Jones was noted in Memphis, Tennessee. An obituary was published for him in The Commercial Appeal on January 11, 2012. However, publicly available information regarding the circumstances of his death…

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DeShawn L Mayo

Male, age 21 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the early evening hours of January 7, 2012, 21-year-old De'Shawn L. Mayo was found lying in the street in the 600 block of Woodhaven Drive in Richmond, Virginia. He was an African-American male who, though he grew up in the area, was not a current…

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Cameron Smith

Male, age 29 · Winnsboro, South Carolina

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the small town of Winnsboro, South Carolina, the life of Cameron William Samuel Smith Sr. was tragically cut short on January 7, 2012. A 29-year-old male, he was a victim of gun violence, a stark event that left a lasting void in the lives of his family…

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Harold Spurlock

Male, age 48 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

Harold B. "Red" Spurlock, a 48-year-old Caucasian male from Columbus, Ohio, passed away on June 5, 2013. His death was a consequence of injuries sustained during a home invasion shooting that occurred on January 7, 2012. At the time of the incident, Harold…

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Trevon Kimbrough

Male, age 18 · Youngstown, Ohio

Killed Jan 7, 2012 · 14 years ago

Trevon Kimbrough, an 18-year-old African American male from Youngstown, OH, was tragically found dead on January 7, 2012. He was discovered shot multiple times in the rear parking area of a vacant business on Market Street on the city’s South Side. The…

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Carly Mcfarland

Male, age 26 · San Francisco, California

Found Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

Carly McFarland, a 26-year-old San Francisco resident, was fatally shot on January 7, 2010, in the Bayview neighborhood. The incident took place around 6:40 p.m. outside 19 Garlington Court. Security officers patrolling the area found McFarland, who had been…

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Justin Rosa

Male, age 20 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

Justin Rosa, aged 20, was fatally shot on January 7, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois. His death occurred during a particularly challenging year for Chicago, as the city experienced a significant number of homicides, driven by gang violence and socio-economic…

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Sean Temore Johnson

Male, age 41 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

On a cold winter day in Baltimore, the life of Sean Temore Johnson, a 41-year-old Black male, was abruptly cut short. On January 7, 2010, Johnson became a victim of homicide, a case that remains a somber mystery. His death is listed among the city's homicides…

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Jamail Sanders

Male, age 20 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

On the evening of January 7, 2010, violence erupted on the west side of Detroit, claiming the lives of two young men. Jamail Sanders, a 20-year-old Black / African American male, was in the company of another man, Hassan Desassure, also 20 years of age. The…

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Hassan Desfasure

Male, age 20 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

On a cold winter night in Detroit, Michigan, on January 7, 2010, the life of 20-year-old Hassan Desfasure was tragically cut short. He was discovered shot at a residence on Brace Street, a victim of the violence that plagued the city. The young man was not…

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Jamie Garcia

Male, age 34 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

Jamie Garcia, a 34-year-old Hispanic/Latino male, was killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the opening days of 2010, a year that had barely begun before his name was added to the city’s homicide record. He was found on the 700 block of East Westmoreland…

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Robert Rice

Male, age 64 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the winter of 2010, the life of a Memphis man was tragically cut short, leaving a void in the lives of his loved ones. Robert A. Rice Sr., a 64-year-old man, was found deceased on January 7, 2010. The cause of his death was determined to be a gunshot…

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Carlton Carter

Male, age 57 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the winter of 2010, tragedy struck a St. Louis workplace, leaving a community in mourning. Carlton Carter, a 57-year-old man, was one of three individuals who lost their lives in a senseless act of violence on January 7th. On that Thursday, a disgruntled…

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Cory Wilson

Male, age 27 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the winter of 2010, the life of 27-year-old Cory Wilson was tragically cut short in a mass shooting that unfolded at the ABB power plant in St. Louis, Missouri. A resident of Collinsville, Illinois, Wilson had been a dedicated employee at the facility for…

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Terry Mabry

Male, age 55 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

On the morning of January 7, 2010, fifty-five-year-old Terry Joe Mabry was at his workplace, the ABB Power plant in St. Louis, Missouri, when a disgruntled colleague launched a violent assault on the facility. Mabry, a male employee who had worked at the…

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Michelle Allen

Female, age 24 · Houston, Texas

Killed Jan 7, 2010 · 16 years ago

Michelle Allen was 24 years old when she was killed in Houston on Thursday, January 7, 2010. The Houston Police Department investigated her death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Houston through 2017, lists it as a…

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Devante Glover

Male, age 16 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jan 7, 2009 · 17 years ago

On a cold winter evening in Washington, D.C., the life of Devante Jamal Glover, a young man known to his loved ones as 'Boo Boo,' was tragically cut short. On Wednesday, January 7, 2009, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Glover was shot and killed in the 1400 block…

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Beth Ann Duncan

Female, age 20 · Baton-rouge, Louisiana

Killed Jan 7, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the early evening of January 7, 2009, a young couple's life together was tragically cut short in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Twenty-year-old Beth Ann Duncan and her husband, twenty-three-year-old Dustin Thomas Duncan, were discovered shot inside a van, their…

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Dustin Thomas Duncan

Male, age 23 · Baton-rouge, Louisiana

Killed Jan 7, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the quiet suburbs of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the lives of 23-year-old Dustin Thomas Duncan and 20-year-old Beth Ann Duncan were tragically cut short in an act of violence that left the community in shock. On the evening of January 7, 2009, the young…

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Justin Lee

Male, age 40 · San Francisco, California

Found Jan 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

On January 7, 2008, Justin Lee, aged 40, was shot and killed in San Francisco, California. The incident occurred in the Tenderloin neighborhood, an area known for high crime rates. Lee was reportedly shot while walking in the area, and the motive behind the…

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Darrion Carrington

Male, age 18 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Jan 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Darrion Carrington, an 18-year-old Boston resident, was shot and killed on the night of January 7, 2008, in a tragic incident at the Canton House Chinese restaurant on Dorchester Avenue. He had stopped by to pick up a late-night food order when a gunman…

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Kyoung Lees

Male, age 32 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Jan 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Kyoung S. Lee, 32, whose gender was not stated in public notices, is remembered in the public record through the kind of details that families lean on when everything else feels unreal: the date of loss, the gathering of loved ones, and the tender routines…

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Hugo Castro

Male, age 18 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Found Jan 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Hugo Cesar Castro, an 18-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, was shot and killed on January 7, 2008. His body was discovered near the Wingate Place Apartments on Nations Ford Road, in proximity to a nearby automotive shop and gas station. Officers from…

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Thomas Rutledge

Male, age 18 · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jan 7, 2008 · 18 years ago

Thomas Rutledge, an 18-year-old male from Dayton, Ohio, tragically died on January 7, 2008, from wounds received in a shooting around midnight the previous day in Trotwood. The incident was part of a violent crime spree that shook the community, leading to…

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David Ramos

Male, age 22 · San Diego, California

Found Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

David Ramos, a 22-year-old man, was tragically killed in a shooting on January 7, 2007, in San Ysidro, San Diego. The incident occurred at the Economy Inn, where Ramos and two companions were inside a second-floor motel room when someone knocked on the door.…

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Timothy Scott

Null, age 25 · San Francisco, California

Found Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

On January 7, 2007, Timothy Scott, age 25, was found shot to death in front of 2120 Mission Street in San Francisco at approximately 2:58 a.m. The circumstances around his death indicated that Scott was shot elsewhere, and his body was then left on the…

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Alberto Casillas

Male, age 20 · San Francisco, California

Found Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

Police are seeking the public's help in solving the seven-year-old homicide of Alberto Casillas. Casillas, 20, was shot while driving his silver GMC Yukon SUV in the area of 13th and Folsom streets on Jan. 7, 2007, about 2:07 a.m., police said. He later died…

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Erin Miller

Male, age 47 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

Ervin “Skeeter” Miller, 47, a Black male, was found shot on the night of January 7, 2007, in the 1600 block of E Street NE in Washington, D.C., just after 11 p.m. He had suffered gunshot wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department appealed for the public’s…

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Sandra Daniels

Female, age 56 · Rockford, Illinois

Found Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

Sandra Daniels, aged 56, was found dead on January 7, 2007, in a rural area near Durand, Illinois, after being missing for over six years. Originally from Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Sandra was last seen on June 3, 2000, when she reportedly left her home in Elm…

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Jerry Diallo Wiley

Male, age 27 · Minneapolis, Minnesota

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

Jerry Diallo Wiley, a 27-year-old African American man, died on January 7, 2007, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His death was recorded as a death by force and treated as a homicide, placing his case among the city’s unsolved killings from that era. In the months…

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William A Hall

Male, age 25 · Nashville, Tennessee

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of a cold Sunday in January 2007, the life of William Anthony Hall was tragically cut short in a Nashville motel room. On January 7th, Hall, a 39-year-old Caucasian male, was with two male friends in room 225 at the Crestwood Suites…

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Nakia L Baker

Male, age 32 · Nashville, Tennessee

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 7, 2007, the life of Nakia Ladelle Baker was tragically cut short in a parking lot on Nolensville Road in South Nashville. Baker, a 32-year-old man from Murfreesboro, had spent the preceding hours socializing with…

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Michael Clapp

Male, age 36 · Mayfield, Kentucky

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of a cold January day in 2007, the life of Michael Gossum Clapp, a 36-year-old Caucasian man from Mayfield, Kentucky, came to a violent and abrupt end. He was fatally shot at a residence in Wingo, a small community in Graves County.…

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Tyron Donta Franklin

Male, age 23 · Paterson, New Jersey

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 7, 2007, a tragedy unfolded at a fast-food restaurant on Broadway in Paterson, New Jersey, that cut short the promising life of a young man. Tyron Donta Franklin, a 23-year-old male, was off-duty from his position as a…

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Marcel Leal

Male, age 25 · Avocado-heights, California

Killed Jan 7, 2007 · 19 years ago

Marcel J. Leal, a 25-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on January 7, 2007, in Avocado Heights, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Marcel was fatally shot in the early hours of that Sunday. The incident occurred…

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Carmen G. Trujillo

Female, age 46 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Jan 7, 2004 · 22 years ago

Carmen G. Trujillo was a 46-year-old Hispanic woman living in Phoenix, Arizona, whose life ended abruptly on January 7, 2004, when she was killed by gunfire. Public records that remember her focus mostly on the date and place of her death and on the…

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Don Gentry

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 7, 2000 · 26 years ago

On January 7, 2000, Don Gentry, a 28-year-old male from Columbus, Ohio, was found dead in a parking lot on Alleghany Avenue in Franklin County. Gentry had suffered a fatal gunshot wound. The circumstances of his death remain unclear, and despite…

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Brittany Locklear

Female, age 5 · Bowmore, North Carolina

Killed Jan 7, 1998 · 28 years ago

Brittany Locklear was born on October 14, 1992, in Raeford, North Carolina, and was living with her mother, Connie Locklear-Chavis at the time of her death. Connie described her as a very unique child, although she was small, she was very independent.…

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Ronnie Tanner

Male, age 20 · Whitehall, Ohio

Killed Jan 7, 1998 · 28 years ago

On January 7, 1998, Ronnie Tanner, age 20, was shot and killed in Whitehall, Ohio. The incident took place at approximately 3:18 AM at an apartment located at 222 Parklawn Boulevard, Apartment G. According to the report, Tanner was visiting a female friend…

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Steven Ray Johnson

Male, age 17 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Jan 7, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the winter of 1995, a night that began with the youthful anticipation of a party ended in tragedy for 17-year-old Steven Ray Johnson. On January 7th, the young Black male and his friends were in a Denver neighborhood searching for a party they had heard…

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Carla Lopez

Female, age 15 · Queens, New York

Killed Jan 7, 1995 · 31 years ago

On a cold winter day in College Point, Queens, the lives of a family were tragically cut short in a brutal act of violence. On January 7, 1995, 15-year-old Carla Lopez was found murdered alongside five other people in an apartment. The other victims were her…

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Maria Esperanza Ramirez

Female, age 42 · Queens, New York

Killed Jan 7, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the winter of 1995, a horrific act of violence shattered the quiet neighborhood of College Point, Queens, claiming the life of 42-year-old Maria Esperanza Ramirez and five others in a brutal home invasion. The massacre, which unfolded in a condominium on…

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Betty Dunn Smothers

Female, age 36 · Baton-rouge, Louisiana

Killed Jan 7, 1993 · 33 years ago

In the early hours of January 7, 1993, a dedicated mother of six and a 14-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department, Corporal Betty Dunn Smothers, was tragically killed. The 36-year-old female officer was off-duty from her primary role and working a…

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Candyce Woodward

Female, age 38 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed Jan 7, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the winter of 1987, the life of 38-year-old Candyce Margaret Woodward was brutally cut short in her Tulsa, Oklahoma home. On the morning of January 7th, after taking her son to school, she agreed to look after her neighbor's sick child. Later that day, a…

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Denise Chance

Female, age 18 · Springfield, Ohio

Found Jan 7, 1985 · 41 years ago

Denise Chance, an 18-year-old from Springfield, Ohio, disappeared from her residence on Erter Drive on January 7, 1985. The night before, Denise had spent time with her brother and friends, returning home where she spoke briefly with her mother, who expected…

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Jerry C. Davis

Male, age 26 · North Little Rock, Arkansas

Killed Jan 7, 1982 · 44 years ago

In North Little Rock, Arkansas, a domestic disturbance call on Healy Street took a tragic turn, resulting in the death of Patrolman Jerry C. Davis. The 26-year-old male officer and his partner were met at the door by a man who claimed there was no issue and…

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