Death by Force10th anniversary

Tyshawn Tink Lemon

Male, age 18 · Syracuse, New York

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the life of a promising young man, Tyshawn R. Lemon, was tragically cut short. At the tender age of 18, the Syracuse native, affectionately known as 'Tink,' had his wings granted on Thursday, July 28, 2016. A recent graduate of…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

David Moglen

Male, age 37 · San-jose, California

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

David Moglen, a 37-year-old economics professor from San Jose, California, tragically lost his life on the night of July 28, 2016. Moglen, who was well-regarded in his field and taught at various community colleges including Foothill College and Evergreen…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Vantha Tho

Female, age 35 · Hermosa-beach, California

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Vantha Tho, a 35-year-old hair stylist and former Miss Cambodia America 1998, was tragically shot and killed on July 28, 2016, in Hermosa Beach, California. Tho was sleeping in her rented room, located just two blocks from the beach, when her estranged…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Edel Cortes Mendoza

Male, age 41 · Canton, Georgia

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

On the evening of July 28, 2016, a normal dinner service at Taqueria Oaxaquena on Marietta Road in Canton, Georgia, was shattered by gunfire. Edel Cortes Mendoza, a 41-year-old male, was eating a meal when a man opened fire, striking him in the torso…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Heather Phillips

Female, age 42 · Gainesville, Georgia

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the life of 42-year-old Heather deAmber Martin Phillips was tragically cut short in what was determined to be a murder-suicide. On July 28, 2016, Heather, a pre-loader for UPS, was found deceased in her Gainesville, Georgia home in the…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Aubrae Harper

Male, age 17 · Peoria, Illinois

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Aubrae M. Harper Jr., a 17-year-old African American male from Peoria, Illinois, tragically lost his life on July 28, 2016. Aubrae was born on November 20, 1998, and was known for his outgoing personality and love for football. He was employed at McDonald's…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Demarius Roseman

Male, age 17 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Demarius Roseman, a 17-year-old African American male, was fatally shot on July 28, 2016, in the South Chicago neighborhood. The incident occurred around 10:40 p.m. when Demarius was walking in the 8000 block of South Manistee Avenue. According to reports, he…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Johnathan Lane

Male, age 23 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Johnathan Lane, a 23-year-old African American male, was tragically shot and killed on July 28, 2016, in the Gresham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The incident occurred around 10:15 p.m. in the 7700 block of South Loomis Boulevard. Lane was with a…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Kayan Q. Armond

Female, age 34 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

On July 28, 2016, a tragic incident unfolded in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood, resulting in the death of 34-year-old Kayana Q. Armond. The event occurred around 12:20 a.m. in the 800-block of West 50th Place, where approximately 100 individuals had…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Paul ONeal

Male, age 18 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

On July 28, 2016, 18-year-old Paul O'Neal, an African American male, was fatally shot by Chicago Police Department officers following a high-speed chase involving a stolen Jaguar. The incident began when officers attempted to stop the vehicle, which had been…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jonathan Meadows

Male, age 41 · Warren, Ohio

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Jonathan Meadows, a 41-year-old man from Warren, OH, tragically died on July 28, 2016, from a single gunshot wound to the head. His death was ruled a homicide, and his daughter, 14-year-old Bresha Meadows, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder in…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jacquan Parson

Male, age 26 · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a 26-year-old man named Jacquan Parson was killed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the evening of July 28th, Parson was gunned down on the 1900 block of Holly Street. The shooting marked the city's eighth homicide of that year. Police…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Alsharay Ford

Male, age 26 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Alsharay Ford, a 25-year-old African American man from Philadelphia, PA, tragically lost his life on July 28, 2016. Ford was driving his 3-year-old daughter home from daycare when he inadvertently drove into the middle of a shootout on Germantown Avenue. As…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Robert Ray

Male, age 22 · Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

On July 28, 2016, 22-year-old Robert Ray, a male from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was found deceased under circumstances that have not been publicly detailed. Despite extensive investigations, information regarding the events leading to his death remains scarce.…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Stephanie Boyd

Female, age 47 · Buchanan, Tennessee

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, a tragedy unfolded in the small community of Buchanan, Tennessee, leaving family and friends to mourn the loss of Stephanie Renee Boyd. A 47-year-old White female, Stephanie was a familiar and friendly face to many, known for her work…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Pedro Josue Josh Garcia

Male, age 34 · Houston, Texas

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

Pedro Josue "Josh" Garcia, a 33-year-old Hispanic male, tragically passed away on July 28, 2016, in Houston, TX. His death was mourned by many who remembered him as a kind and caring individual who always put others first. The circumstances surrounding his…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Andrew Swift

Male, age 36 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

On July 28, 2011, Andrew Swift, aged 36, was killed in Jacksonville, Florida, in a homicide that remains unsolved to this day. The incident occurred during a period when the city faced significant challenges with violent crime, particularly homicides.…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Jose A Gallardo

Male, age 37 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

Jose A. Gallardo, age 37, was fatally shot on July 28, 2011, in Chicago. His death occurred during a time when the city was experiencing significant gun violence, particularly in areas with high levels of crime and gang-related activities. Gallardo's homicide…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Marshawn Christian

Male, age 28 · Columbus, Ohio

Found Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

On July 28, 2011, Marshawn Christian, age 28, was shot and killed in Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred at the 900 block of Oakwood Avenue during the late hours of the night. Columbus Police received reports and arrived at the scene, where Marshawn was…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Marquise Mccoy

Male, age 22 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the early hours of July 28, 2011, the life of 22-year-old Marquise Mccoy was cut short in Philadelphia. A Black male, Mccoy was found by Philadelphia Police who were responding to a report of a shooting. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

James Clark

Male, age 60 · Nashville, Tennessee

Killed Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

On a warm summer evening in Nashville, Tennessee, the life of James Eddie Clark, a 60-year-old male, was brought to a violent and abrupt end. On Thursday, July 28, 2011, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Clark was seated in his white Mercury Mountaineer at the…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Uel Chavez

Male, age 43 · Fort Worth, Texas

Found Jul 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

Manuel Chavez, aged 43, was tragically killed in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 28, 2011. The incident occurred under circumstances that remain unclear, resulting in a community grieving the sudden loss of a beloved individual. Chavez was remembered by family and…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Pamela Jean Pam Hall

Female, age 58 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

On a summer day in Seattle, Washington, the life of Pamela Jean Pam Hall, a 58-year-old White/Caucasian female, was tragically cut short. On July 28, 2006, Hall was at her job at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, where she served as the director of…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Derek Pieper

Male, age 17 · Trilby, Florida

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

Derek Pieper, a 17-year-old male from Trilby, Florida, was tragically murdered on July 28, 2006. Derek Pieper and his friend, 18-year-old Raymond Veluz, were found shot execution-style on a rural road in Trilby. The two teenagers had left a party to buy drugs…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Kenneth Anderson

Male, age 11 · Gaston, North Carolina

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

Kenneth Staten Anderson Jr., an 11-year-old African American boy from Gaston, North Carolina, was tragically killed on July 29, 2006. At the time of his death, Kenneth was preparing to enter the fifth grade at Garysburg Elementary School, where he was known…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

Marco Antonio Garcia

Male, age 29 · Paramount, California

Killed Jul 28, 2001 · 25 years ago

Marco Antonio Garcia, a 29-year-old Latino male, was tragically shot and killed on July 28, 2001, in Paramount, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Garcia's death was the result of a gunshot wound. The incident occurred on a…

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Death by Force30th anniversary

John Garcia

Male, age 48 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed Jul 28, 1996 · 30 years ago

In the summer of 1996, a wave of violence swept through Las Vegas, leaving a trail of grief in its wake. One of the victims was John Garcia, a 48-year-old Hispanic male, whose life was tragically cut short on July 28th of that year. He was gunned down in the…

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Death by Force35th anniversary

David Vaughn

Male, age 19 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Jul 28, 1991 · 35 years ago

In the summer of 1991, a life was tragically cut short on the streets of Detroit. David Vaughn, a White/Caucasian male, was killed on July 28th of that year. His death was not an accident, but a result of gun violence, a harsh reality that plagued the city.…

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Death by Force35th anniversary

Margaret Davis

Female, age 67 · Cherryville, North Carolina

Killed Jul 28, 1991 · 35 years ago

On July 28, 1991, Margaret Davis, a 67-year-old white woman, and her husband, William Fred Davis, 68, were brutally murdered in their Rutherford County, North Carolina, home. The couple was attacked by Phillip Ingle, who entered their residence through an…

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Death by Force40th anniversary

Floyd Heidelberg

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Jul 28, 1986 · 40 years ago

On July 28, 1986, Floyd Heidelberg, a 56-year-old man, was shot and killed in his apartment located at 2127 Gilbert Avenue, Apartment 61, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The incident occurred during what appeared to be a drug-related event, leading authorities to…

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Death by Force55th anniversary

Brenda Crockett

Female, age 10 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jul 28, 1971 · 55 years ago

On a warm summer evening in Washington, D.C., ten-year-old Brenda Faye Crockett, an African-American girl, was sent by her mother to a local Safeway to buy a few groceries on July 27, 1971. It was a simple errand, just five blocks from her home in the…

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Death by Force55th anniversary

Thomas Speer

Male, age 42 · Madison, Wisconsin

Killed Jul 28, 1971 · 55 years ago

Thomas Speer, a 42-year-old White/Caucasian man, was a physician from Merrillville, Indiana, whose trip to Madison, Wisconsin, for a medical conference ended in an unsolved killing on July 28, 1971. Speer had built a career in medicine after attending medical…

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Death by Force70th anniversary

Abraham Telvi

Male, age 22 · Manhattan, New York

Killed Jul 28, 1956 · 70 years ago

Abraham Telvi, a 22-year-old Jewish-American man, was a mobster and hitman entangled with the Lucchese crime family. His life came to a violent end on the streets of Manhattan on July 28, 1956. Telvi's death was not a random act of violence, but rather a…

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Death by Force95th anniversary

Walter S. Harris

age 54 · Texarkana, Arkansas

Killed Jul 28, 1931 · 95 years ago

Walter S. Harris, 54, male, was the elected sheriff of Miller County, Arkansas, when he was killed on July 28, 1931, during a Prohibition-era raid on an illegal liquor still near Texarkana. Accounts describe deputies moving in on the still when gunfire broke…

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Death by Force95th anniversary

Michael Vengalli

Male, age 5 · Manhattan, New York

Killed Jul 28, 1931 · 95 years ago

On a sweltering summer evening in East Harlem on July 28, 1931, five-year-old Michael Vengalli was playing with his older brother Salvatore and other children on the street. The Italian neighborhood was bustling with families seeking refuge from the…

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Death by Force115th anniversary

Jeff Davis Barnes

Male, age 45 · Bosque, Texas

Killed Jul 28, 1911 · 115 years ago

Jeff Davis Barnes, a 45-year-old male, passed away on July 28, 1911, in Bosque County, Texas. Barnes, who served as a constable for Precinct 5 in Bosque County, was involved in a tragic accident that led to his untimely death. According to reports, Barnes was…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Omar Gilberto Cota Sanchez

Male, age 30 · Del-rey, California

Killed Jul 28, 2021 · 5 years ago

Omar Gilberto Cota Sanchez, a 30-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on July 28, 2021, in Del Rey, California. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Sanchez was shot near the intersection of Marionwood Drive and…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Stephanie Michelle Parra

Female, age 34 · Bell Gardens, California

Killed Jul 28, 2021 · 5 years ago

Stephanie Michelle Parra was 34 years old when she died on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in Bell Gardens, in southeast Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds near 6203 Agra St. Her death was ruled…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jorge Moreno-Aguirre

Male, age 41 · Sparks, Nevada

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

On a Thursday morning in Sparks, Nevada, the life of 41-year-old Hispanic male Jorge Moreno-Aguirre came to a tragic end. The events of July 28, 2016, began to unfold around 10:15 a.m. when Moreno-Aguirre was sent home from his job at a local restaurant after…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Anthony Jones

Male, age 48 · Indianapolis, Indiana

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the early hours of a Thursday morning in Indianapolis, 48-year-old Anthony Jones, a male, was found shot inside a car on the city's west side. The discovery was made near 18th and Medford at approximately 4:00 a.m. on July 28, 2016. Emergency services were…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Michael Vanhorn

Male, age 48 · Martinsville, Indiana

Killed Jul 28, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the life of Michael Joseph Vanhorn, a 48-year-old male resident of Martinsville, Indiana, was tragically cut short. On Thursday, July 28, 2016, deputies from the Morgan County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a home in the 6800 block…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Pam Waechter

Male, age 58 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

On a summer afternoon in Seattle, Washington, on July 28, 2006, the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle became the scene of a violent and tragic event. Pamela Waechter, a 58-year-old Jewish-American woman and the director of the Federation's…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Raymond Veluz

Male, age 18 · Trilby, Florida

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

Raymond Veluz, an 18-year-old from Trilby, Florida, tragically lost his life on July 28, 2006, in a brutal execution-style murder. The incident occurred when Veluz and his friend, 17-year-old Derek Pieper, left a party to purchase drugs. They encountered Luc…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Basil Jamil Alfar

Male, age 40 · East Compton, California

Killed Jul 28, 2006 · 20 years ago

Basil Jamil Alfar was 40 years old when he died on Friday, July 28, 2006, in East Compton, in southern Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 15607 S. Atlantic Ave. His death was ruled a…

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Cameron Boone

Male, age 13 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Jul 28, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of July 28, 2026, the life of 13-year-old Cameron Boone was tragically cut short in a Northwest Atlanta home. The young male was at a sleepover at his aunt's house on Lindsey Street, a place he frequented to enjoy playing video…

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Crystal Russ

Female, age 44 · Penn Hills, Pennsylvania

Killed Jul 28, 2026 · this year

In the late afternoon of a summer day in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a quiet neighborhood was disrupted by the sounds of gunshots and a subsequent crash. On July 28, 2026, first responders were called to West Barivista Drive around 3:30 p.m. for a report of a…

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Darron Venable

Male, age 18 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Jul 28, 2026 · this year

In the late hours of a Tuesday evening in the nation's capital, the life of 18-year-old Darron Venable of Southeast, Washington, D.C., was tragically cut short. On July 28, 2026, at approximately 10:38 p.m., the sound of gunfire pierced the night in the unit…

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Demonty Carter

Male, age 22 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jul 28, 2026 · this year

In the early hours of a summer morning in Columbus, Ohio, the life of 22-year-old Demonty Carter was tragically cut short. On July 28, 2026, around 2:10 a.m., Columbus police were called to an apartment in the 2700 block of Brandy Drive, near Refugee Road…

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