Death by Force

Joshua Ayala

Male, age 17 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, Joshua Ayala, a 17-year-old boy, was fatally shot in the South Shore area of Chicago, Illinois. The incident occurred when two 17-year-old boys, including Joshua, were outside in the 8100 block of South Shore Drive. Two gunmen approached…

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Daniel Romero

Male, age 21 · Springfield, Massachusetts

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the late hours of a summer evening, the life of Daniel Joseph Romero, a 21-year-old Caucasian male, was tragically cut short. On July 17, 2023, in Springfield, Massachusetts, what began as a normal night ended in violence. At approximately 10:45 p.m.…

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Benard Cochrum

Male, age 24 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the Russell neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, on the evening of July 17, 2023, the life of 24-year-old Benard Edward Cochrum, a Black male, was tragically cut short. Around 8:50 p.m., police responded to a report of a shooting at the intersection of…

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Dustin Parrie Jr.

Male, age 20 · Harvey, Louisiana

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On a tragic Monday afternoon in Harvey, Louisiana, the life of 20-year-old Dustin Parrie Jr. was cut short in a senseless act of workplace violence. On July 17, 2023, Parrie was fatally shot at the FMT Shipyard, his place of employment. The young man, a…

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Nakie James Brown

Male, age 48 · Harvey, Louisiana

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

A normal workday at a Harvey shipyard turned tragic when a recently terminated employee returned to his former workplace and opened fire, taking the lives of two men, including 48-year-old Nakie James Brown. The incident, which unfolded at FMT Shipyard, also…

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Precious Gray

Female, age 29 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the early morning hours of July 17, 2023, the life of 29-year-old Precious Gray was tragically cut short in a violent shooting in New Orleans. A Black female, Gray was discovered inside her vehicle at the intersection of Chef Menteur Highway and Lonely Oak…

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Kody M. Ingram

Male, age 32 · Canton, Ohio

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, at approximately 3:58 a.m., Canton police responded to a reported shooting at 423 Gobel Avenue NE. Upon arrival, officers found 32-year-old Kody M. Ingram with a gunshot wound. He was transported to Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital, where he…

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Matthew Collins

Male, age 42 · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

Matthew Collins, a 42-year-old resident of New Lebanon, Ohio, was tragically shot and killed on July 17, 2023. His body was discovered in Trotwood, specifically on Forestdale Avenue, following reports of gunfire in the area. Emergency responders pronounced…

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Cordy Shaw

Male, age 34 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On a summer morning in Baltimore, the sound of gunfire shattered the quiet of the 1600 block of Delano Court. Responding to a ShotSpotter alert at approximately 9:00 a.m. on July 17, 2023, Western District patrol officers arrived to a grim scene inside one of…

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Garrett Albert

Male, age 52 · Greenville, Mississippi

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, the life of a Greenville, Mississippi man was tragically cut short by violence. Garrett Albert, a 52-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on the evening of Monday, July 17th. The incident occurred on Elm Street, where responding…

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Jatavious K. Harris

Male, age 20 · Leesville, South Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

Jatavious K. Harris, a 20-year-old male, was inside his home in Batesburg, South Carolina, in the early morning hours of July 17, 2023, when his life was cut short in a sudden act of violence. At approximately 1:00 a.m., multiple gunshots were fired from the…

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Quincy Harris

Male, age 39 · Greenville, South Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On a hot Monday afternoon, July 17, 2023, 39-year-old Quincy Tavares Harris, a Black man from Greenville, South Carolina, was at home on Douthit Street when sudden violence shattered the quiet of the neighborhood. Around early afternoon, a 911 call brought…

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Travis D. Jones Jr

Male, age 17 · Columbia, South Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the early hours of a Monday morning in Columbia, South Carolina, the life of 17-year-old Travis D. Jones Jr. was tragically cut short. On July 17, 2023, a cascade of gunfire erupted in the 4200 block of Wentworth Drive, near the intersection of Lorick…

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Calvin Wang

Male, age 37 · Virginia-beach, Virginia

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, the life of Calvin Wang, a 37-year-old male, was brought to a tragic and violent end in his Virginia Beach home. Born in Taiwan, Wang had immigrated to the United States at a young age and had built a life of dedicated service as a…

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Jami Michelle Duncan

Male, age 39 · Kansas-city, Missouri

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, the life of 39-year-old Jami Michelle Duncan, a female resident of Kansas City, Missouri, was tragically cut short. On the night of July 17th, emergency services received a call that led them to a home on East 54th Street. Inside, they…

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Foridun Maulonou

Male, age 15 · Brooklyn, New York

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, a promising young life was tragically cut short on the streets of Brooklyn. Foridun Maulonov, a 15-year-old male, was fatally shot in the back in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. He was a talented judo champion who, according to his…

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Ute M Gonia

Female, age 72 · Gouverneur, New York

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

Ute M. Gonia, a 72-year-old female, passed away at her home in Gouverneur, New York. Born in Grevesmuhlen, East Germany, to Wilhelm and Eva Reinberger, her family later defected to West Germany, where she completed her education in business school. It was in…

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Aljerone Sims

Male, age 37 · Winston-salem, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, 37-year-old Aljerone Miquel Sims was fatally shot in a drive-by incident in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The shooting occurred around 10:00 p.m. in the 100 block of North Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Sims was seated outside when a silver…

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Alvie Chavis Jr

Male, age 52 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, 52-year-old Alvie Chavis Jr. was fatally shot in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The incident occurred during an attempted armed robbery along the 300 block of Dallas Street. Chavis sustained a life-threatening gunshot wound and was later…

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Danielle Claire Golcher

Female, age 19 · Fayetteville, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, at approximately 1:30 a.m., 19-year-old Danielle Claire Golcher was found fatally shot in the parking lot of a Valero gas station located in the 800 block of Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A male victim also sustained…

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Reynaldo Rivera

Male, age 40 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, at approximately 9:40 p.m., 40-year-old Reynaldo Rivera was fatally shot during a home invasion at the Heatherwood Trace Apartments on Paces Glen Avenue in east Charlotte, North Carolina. A second victim, a 23-year-old male, sustained…

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Robert Bobo Kontar Forney

Male, age 45 · Mill-spring, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, at approximately 11:30 a.m., the Polk County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of gunfire at 3653 Fox Mountain Road in Mill Spring, North Carolina. Upon arrival, deputies discovered 45-year-old Robert "Bo" Forney deceased from multiple…

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Victor Lenoir Dixon

Male, age 36 · Wilson, North Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On the night of July 17, 2023, at approximately 11:30 p.m., Wilson Police Department officers responded to a reported shooting on the 500 block of Winstead Street in Wilson, North Carolina. Upon arrival, they discovered 36-year-old Victor Lenoir Dixon…

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Jameel Cooper

Male, age 35 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On the warm summer night of July 17, 2023, the lights of the PNP Gas Station on Front Street and Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia cast a glow on a gathering of about 15 people. Suddenly, the ordinary evening was shattered by a shocking act of…

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Deandre G Garner

Male, age 19 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, the life of 19-year-old Deandre G. Garner, a Black male from Memphis, Tennessee, was tragically cut short by gun violence. On Monday, July 17, 2023, Garner was fatally shot in what was reported as one of at least five shootings that…

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Isiah Brown

Male, age 21 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

In the summer of 2023, a young man's life was tragically cut short in Memphis, Tennessee. Isiah Brown, a 21-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on July 17, 2023. The incident, which stemmed from an argument, unfolded in the airport area of the city and…

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Jessa Rose Osmera

Male, age 1 · Fallbrook, California

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, in Fallbrook, California, a tragic incident occurred involving the accidental shooting death of 1-year-old Jessa Osmera. At approximately 7:30 a.m., the San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a distressing call reporting that a…

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Daniel Kirk Boshell

Male, age 39 · Waco, Texas

Killed Jul 17, 2023 · 3 years ago

On July 17, 2023, 39-year-old Daniel "DBO" Boshell was found deceased in his home in Waco, Texas, from an apparent gunshot wound. The Lacy Lakeview Police Department responded to reports of a questionable death in the 500 block of Greenfield Drive. During the…

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David Daniel Sloan

Male, age 45 · Bessemer, Alabama

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the summer of 2022, David Daniel Sloan, a 45-year-old male, became another statistic in the ongoing crisis of violence within Alabama's prison system. His death on July 17, 2022, while incarcerated at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer…

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Torey B. Robinson Sr.

Male, age 34 · Tuskegee, Alabama

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the summer of 2022, the life of 34-year-old Torey B. Robinson Sr. was tragically cut short by an act of gun violence in Tuskegee, Alabama. On the evening of Sunday, July 17, 2022, Robinson was fatally shot, leaving a void in the lives of his family and…

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David Siau

Male, age 39 · East Glacier Park, Montana

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer evening in East Glacier Park, Montana, the lives of the Siau family were irrevocably shattered. David Siau, a 39-year-old Caucasian male, was on vacation with his family, enjoying a trip out west that had begun on July 9, 2022. They had been…

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Virginia Pena

Female, age 39 · Yuma, Arizona

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the quiet early morning hours of July 17, 2022, a night of camaraderie took a tragic and violent turn for a group of friends in Yuma, Arizona. Virginia Pena, a 39-year-old Hispanic woman, was enjoying a ride with three female companions, their path…

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Antoine Sampson

Male, age 43 · Clinton, Iowa

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

Antoine Sampson, a 43-year-old Black male from Clinton, Iowa, was fatally shot late on Sunday, July 17, 2022. Shortly before 11 p.m., Clinton police officers were dispatched to the intersection of 5th Avenue South and South 5th Street after receiving a report…

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Sean Chap

Male, age 32 · Des Moines, Iowa

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer morning in Des Moines, Iowa, the life of 32-year-old Sean Dion Chapman, a Black male, was tragically cut short. On July 17, 2022, Chapman was found deceased in his apartment at 3630 Twana Drive, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound to the head. The…

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Kathryn Sloan

Female, age 57 · Charleston, West Virginia

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer evening in Sissonville, West Virginia, a community near Charleston, the life of 57-year-old Kathryn Marie Springston Sloan, a White female, was tragically cut short. On July 17, 2022, she was found deceased from gunshot wounds at a residence on…

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Dante Euel Hall

Male, age 34 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 17, 2022, a series of violent events shattered the peace in southeast Portland, Oregon, culminating in the tragic death of 34-year-old Dante Euel Hall. The final and fatal incident unfolded around 2:52 a.m. in the…

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Victoria Brown

Female, age 24 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On July 17, 2022, a tragic shooting incident occurred in Southeast Portland, Oregon, resulting in the deaths of two individuals, including 24-year-old Victoria 'Vee' Brown. Victoria Brown, born on August 30, 1997, was a young resident of Portland whose life…

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Ralphie Scott

Male, age 33 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer evening in Boston, the life of Ralphie Scott, a 33-year-old Black/African American man, was tragically cut short. On July 17, 2022, in the Mattapan neighborhood, Scott was shot near the intersection of Norfolk Street and Elizabeth Street. The…

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Lesley Bolagh

Female, age 21 · Albuquerque, New Mexico

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

Lesly Gabriela Bolagh, a 21-year-old resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, tragically lost her life on July 18, 2022, due to a road rage incident that escalated into a deadly shootout. The event occurred when a confrontation between two vehicles turned…

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Sofia Molina

Female, age 12 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a tragic summer day in Las Vegas, Nevada, the life of 12-year-old Hispanic female, Sofia Molina, was cut short. On July 17, 2022, Sofia, who was about to enter the seventh grade at Somerset Academy Lone Mountain, was fatally shot by her own father, Israel…

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Printara PJ Jackson

Male, age 45 · Kansas City, Kansas

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On the night of July 17, 2022, in Kansas City, Kansas, Printara PJ Jackson, a 45-year-old man, was fatally shot in what has been described as a double shooting. The incident occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of North Fifth Street, within…

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William Willie Allen Blacksmith

Male, age 35 · Brown County, Kansas

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a Sunday morning in July 2022, a verbal altercation on the Kickapoo Reservation in southern Brown County, Kansas, turned deadly, leaving one man dead and another facing a first-degree murder charge. William "Willie" Allen Blacksmith, a 35-year-old man from…

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Edward Studvent

Male, age 33 · Lexington, Kentucky

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early evening of July 17, 2022, the life of 33-year-old Edward Studvent, a Black/African American male, was tragically cut short in Lexington, Kentucky. At approximately 6:44 p.m., police responded to a call of a shooting on Hedgewood Court. Upon their…

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Alexander Castagnoli

Male, age 19 · Vancouver, Washington

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early hours of July 17, 2022, a house party on East 11th Street in Vancouver, Washington, turned deadly, claiming the life of 19-year-old male Alexander Castagnoli. The gathering, which had swelled from a small group to over 70 people, was shattered by…

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Amadou Na Keita

Male, age 19 · Vancouver, Washington

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer night in Vancouver, Washington, what began as a "going-away-to-college" party turned into a scene of violence, leaving two young men dead and two others wounded. Among the deceased was Amadou Na Keita, an 18-year-old Black male from Portland…

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Trenton Harris

Male, age 30 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

On a summer afternoon in Seattle, the life of Trenton Harris, a 30-year-old Caucasian male, came to a tragic and violent end. On July 17, 2022, his body was discovered in Kobe Terrace Park, located in the city's Chinatown-International District. Initial…

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Andrew Hopkins

Male, age 36 · Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the summer of 2022, the quiet community of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was unsettled by a grim discovery. The body of 36-year-old Andrew Dwayne Hopkins, a local man, was found under a bridge, sparking an intensive investigation by the Cherokee County Sheriff's…

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Serenity McAdoo

Female, age 18 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed Jul 17, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early morning hours of July 17, 2022, a dispute between two groups of young people at the popular downtown Tulsa landmark, the Center of the Universe, escalated into a fatal burst of gunfire. Caught in the crossfire was 18-year-old Serenity McAdoo, who…

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