Deaths by Force on July 2

Deaths by Force (531)

Death by Force30th anniversary

Shawn Grant

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 1996 · 30 years ago

On July 2, 1996, Shawn Grant, an 18-year-old, was shot and killed in Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred at an apartment located at 1504 North 4th Street, in Franklin County. Despite efforts by the Columbus Police Department to solve this crime, no suspects…

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Death by Force45th anniversary

Alfred Trujillo

Male, age 38 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Jul 2, 1981 · 45 years ago

On a warm summer evening in Denver, Colorado, a gathering of family and friends at La Alma Park turned tragic, leaving a family shattered and a community with questions that would linger for decades. On July 1, 1981, Alfred Trujillo, a 43-year-old Hispanic…

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Death by Force95th anniversary

Harry Beasley

Male, age 41 · Newark, New Jersey

Killed Jul 2, 1931 · 95 years ago

Harry C. Beasley, a 41-year-old white male police patrolman in Newark, Ohio, had already lived one life of danger and distinction before the night he was mortally wounded in the summer of 1931. Born and raised in Newark, he left home as a young man to join…

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Death by Force115th anniversary

Patrick Fogarty

Male · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 1911 · 115 years ago

Patrolman Patrick Fogarty, aged 41 years, was a dedicated officer of the Chicago Police Department's 10th Precinct – Hyde Park. On the night of July 1, 1911, Fogarty was off-duty and spending time with his nephew, Michael Hannon. They had enjoyed a night out…

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Death by Force145th anniversary

John Isham Mount

Male, age 37 · Fayetteville, Arkansas

Killed Jul 2, 1881 · 145 years ago

In the late 19th century, a tragic event unfolded in the town square of Fayetteville, Arkansas, forever marking the community. Deputy Sheriff John Isham Mount, a 37-year-old male, was a respected figure in Washington County. His life, however, was cut short…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Enrico Joshua Devonta Jones

Male, age 27 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jul 2, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the early hours of a summer morning in Baltimore, Maryland, the life of Enrico Joshua Devonta Jones, a 27-year-old Black man, was tragically cut short. On July 2, 2021, at approximately 1:12 a.m., violence erupted in the 1800 block of Dover Street in the…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Isaac Rivera

Male, age 33 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Jul 2, 2021 · 5 years ago

Isaac Rivera, a 33-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on July 2, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Rivera was shot near 1224 Maple Ave. in Downtown Los Angeles. The incident…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Heriberto Laboy-Sanchez

Male, age 29 · Lorain, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 2021 · 5 years ago

Heriberto Laboy-Sanchez, a 29-year-old man from Lorain, Ohio, was found dead on July 2, 2021, in the 2300 block of Apple Avenue. The Lorain Police Department responded to a report of an unresponsive man and discovered Laboy-Sanchez lying in the street. He was…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Victor Powell

Male, age 66 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2021 · 5 years ago

Victor Powell, 66, was stabbed to death aboard a Chicago Transit Authority bus in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chatham, on the city's South Side, on the afternoon of Friday, July 2, 2021. The Chicago Police Department investigated, and Area…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Versa Johnson

Female, age 65 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Jul 2, 2016 · 10 years ago

Versa Johnson, a sixty-five-year-old female resident of Saint Louis, Missouri, became a victim of gun violence during a particularly violent holiday weekend in the city. On July 2, 2016, she was fatally shot outside her home, an incident that contributed to a…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Ricky Keon Calloway

Male, age 21 · Hampton, Virginia

Killed Jul 2, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the summer of 2011, a young man's life was cut short on a street in Hampton, Virginia. Ricky Keon Calloway, a 21-year-old male, was walking on Westwood Avenue on the evening of July 2nd when a blue four-door sedan approached him. An exchange of gunfire…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Jermaine Monteil Sharp

Male, age 25 · Carson, California

Killed Jul 2, 2006 · 20 years ago

The summer weekend was quiet across the residential neighborhoods of Carson, California, when an unexpected act of violence claimed the life of a young man. On Sunday, July 2, 2006, twenty-five-year-old Jermaine Monteil Sharp, a Black male, lost his life…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Yahir Arredondo

Male, age 1 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jul 2, 2006 · 20 years ago

On Sunday, July 2, 2006, the brief life of Yahir Arredondo came to a tragic and abrupt end. Yahir, a 1-year-old Hispanic boy, died under circumstances that prompted local authorities to open a homicide investigation into the loss of a toddler whose life had…

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Death by Force145th anniversary

William Patton

Male, age 32 · Fayetteville, Arkansas

Killed Jul 2, 1881 · 145 years ago

William Delano Patton, a 32-year-old male city marshal in Fayetteville, Arkansas, lived his final years under the shadow of a feud that had been simmering across the hills and river bottoms of northwest Arkansas since the Civil War. By the summer of 1881 he…

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Anthony Mincey

Male, age 35 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

On the evening of July 2, 2026, the Westwood neighborhood of Cincinnati was disrupted by an act of violence that claimed the life of 35-year-old Anthony Mincey. Cincinnati Police Department officers from District Three were dispatched to the 2800 block of…

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Charles Baldwin

Male, age 56 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the predawn hours of July 2, 2026, the quiet of a southern Dallas neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Officers from the Dallas Police Department were dispatched to the 3500 block of La France Street around 2:15 a.m. following reports of a…

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Chauncey Newman

Male, age 45 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the pre-dawn hours of July 2, 2026, a hail of bullets shattered the quiet of a Gresham Park neighborhood in DeKalb County, Georgia, ending the life of 45-year-old Chauncey Newman. The shooting, which occurred just before 4 a.m. on Rockcliff Road, also…

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Christopher Brandon Steven

Male, age 32 · El Paso, Texas

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In what began as a trivial dispute over a parking space, a night of errands in El Paso, Texas, tragically ended in the death of 32-year-old Christopher Brandon Steven. On the evening of Thursday, July 2, 2026, Steven, a former U.S. Marine, was at a Walgreens…

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Christopher Walsh

Male, age 31 · Humble, Texas

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Humble, Texas, the life of 31-year-old Christopher Walsh was tragically cut short on July 2, 2026. A devoted repairman, he had been dispatched to a vacant home on Crathie Drive to carry out some work. When he failed to return home…

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Demarcus Shirley

Male, age 13 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of July 2, 2026, a summer sleepover among a group of young boys in a DeKalb County home on Rockcliff Road turned into a scene of tragedy. Thirteen-year-old Demarcus Shirley was inside the residence, along with several other children…

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Deshawn Rippey

Male, age 32 · Middletown, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of July 2, 2026, the life of 32-year-old Deshawn Rippey was tragically cut short in a burst of gunfire in Middletown, Ohio. The shooting occurred around 2:10 a.m. in the 1300 block of Yankee Road, where police found Rippey suffering…

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Jacqueline Ecton

Female, age 59 · Springfield, Missouri

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the early morning hours of July 2, 2026, the Springfield, Missouri community was shaken by a tragedy that unfolded in a parking garage at Mercy Hospital. Jacqueline Ecton, a 59-year-old dedicated caregiver at the hospital, was arriving for her shift when…

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Jade Riser

Female, age 9 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

Jade Riser, a 9-year-old Black/African American female from Milwaukee, was fatally wounded when gunfire entered the home where she was staying in the city’s Harambee neighborhood on the night of July 2, 2026. Although the shooting occurred on July 2, online…

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Jason Mackey

Male, age 16 · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

Jason Hason Hasain Mackey Jr., a 16-year-old male from Dayton, Ohio, died on July 2, 2026, after suffering a gunshot wound inside or near a residence on Ravenwood Avenue. At approximately 7:30 p.m., Dayton police officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of…

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Neville Conner

Male, age 38 · Long Beach, Mississippi

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the coastal city of Long Beach, Mississippi, the life of 38-year-old Neville Stephen Conner was tragically cut short on Thursday, July 2, 2026. A long-time resident of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Conner was known as a skilled electrician who had been…

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Sara Lang

Female, age 40 · Mauckport, Indiana

Killed Jul 2, 2026 · this year

In the quiet town of Mauckport, Indiana, the life of 40-year-old Sara M. Lang was tragically cut short on the night of Thursday, July 2, 2026. What began as a domestic evening inside her Hillcrest Drive home would end in a fatal gunshot wound to her chest…

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Jermaine Dashun Witherspoon

Male, age 28 · Northport, Alabama

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In Northport, Alabama, on the evening of July 2, 2025, Jermaine Dashun Witherspoon, a 28-year-old man, was fatally shot. The incident occurred around 7:42 p.m. in the 11400 block of Fairwood Avenue in the Huntington Place neighborhood. Witherspoon was sitting…

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Donnie Boatman

Male, age 38 · Modesto, California

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Donnie Boatman, a 38-year-old White/Caucasian male, was shot on the evening of July 2, 2025, in the 600 block of Leon Avenue in Modesto, California. Deputies arrived around 6:42 p.m. to find him gravely wounded; he was rushed to a local hospital, where he was…

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Darion Phar

Male, age 22 · Stonecrest, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the summer of 2025, a family was irrevocably shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 22-year-old Darion Phar. On Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in the middle of the day, Phar was gunned down at an apartment complex on Tree View Drive in…

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Jianni Jones

Male, age 3 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the summer of 2025, a bright and joyful 3-year-old boy named Jianni Jones, lost his life in a tragic incident in East Point, Georgia, a community in the Atlanta metropolitan area. On the afternoon of July 2nd, emergency services were called to a home on…

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Qwamaine Lewis

Male, age 18 · Warner Robins, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

On a Wednesday evening in Warner Robins, Georgia, 18-year-old Qwamaine Lewis was shot and subsequently died from his injuries in what police believe began as a robbery. The incident, which marked the 12th homicide in Houston County that year, has raised…

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Shanntrell Bell

Female, age 22 · Decatur, Georgia

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the warm evening of early July, a night that began with the camaraderie of a car meet-up in Decatur, Georgia, ended in a tragedy that would forever alter the lives of many. Twenty-two-year-old Shanntrell Bell, a woman remembered by her family as the…

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Percy Butler

Male, age 35 · Des Moines, Iowa

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the early hours of July 2, 2025, a dispute on Des Moines' east side turned fatal, leaving 35-year-old Percy Butler, a Black / African American male, dead from a gunshot wound. The incident occurred just after 12:15 a.m. at 3600 Kennedy Drive, where Des…

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Aviance Drexler

Female, age 27 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Aviance Drexler, 27, a female Black/African American health care worker, was among four people killed when gunmen opened fire into a crowd outside Artis Restaurant and Lounge in Chicago’s River North neighborhood late on July 2, 2025. She had gone out that…

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Devonte Terrell Williamson

Male, age 24 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Devonte Terrell Williamson, 23, a Black male from Chicago, was among four people killed when gunfire erupted outside Artis Restaurant & Lounge at 311 W. Chicago Ave. late on July 2, 2025, as guests spilled out from an album release party for drill rapper…

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Leon Andrew Henry

Male, age 25 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

On the night of July 2, 2025, in Chicago’s River North, Leon Andrew Henry, 25, a Black male, stood among a crowd spilling out onto West Chicago Avenue when a dark SUV rolled past and gunfire erupted. The chaos outside Artis Restaurant and Lounge—where an…

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Ronald McClain

Male, age 29 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the early morning darkness of July 2, 2025, Ronald McClain, 29, a Black man from Chicago, sat in a vehicle on the 12100 block of South LaSalle Street in West Pullman when another car pulled alongside and someone opened fire. A bullet struck Ronald McClain…

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Taylor Walker

Female, age 26 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Taylor Walker, 26, a female Black/African American, died on July 2, 2025, after a drive-by shooting outside Artis Restaurant and Lounge in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. The attack erupted just after 11 p.m., when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up to the…

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Franklin Hughes

Male, age 32 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the summer of 2025, a burst of gunfire shattered the late-night quiet in a Southwest Baltimore neighborhood, leaving a young man's life tragically cut short. Franklin Hughes, a 32-year-old Black male, was found suffering from a life-threatening gunshot…

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Ronald Guy Lewis-Glasco

Male, age 25 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the summer of 2025, a burst of gunfire shattered the afternoon calm in a Baltimore neighborhood, leaving a young man dead and another wounded. The life of Ronald Guy Lewis-Glasco Jr., a 25-year-old Black male, was cut short on July 2, 2025, inside a…

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Ann Marie Chaires

Female, age 36 · Albuquerque, New Mexico

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

On July 2, 2025, in a small apartment on the 1000 block of Madeira Drive SE in Albuquerque, 36-year-old Ann Marie Chaires, a female, answered a knock from three masked men. One of them, police say, had previously left a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at her place…

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Cruz Aguirre

Male, age 42 · Hobbs, New Mexico

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Cruz Aguirre, 42, a Latino male from Hobbs, New Mexico, was shot on July 2, 2025, after stepping into a volatile scene on West Roxana Street. He was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and was taken to Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital, where he died soon after; the…

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Frank Howard

Male, age 45 · Albuquerque, New Mexico

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Frank Howard, 45, male, White/Caucasian, was found fatally wounded just after 3 a.m. on July 2, 2025, near the bus stop at Menaul Boulevard and Eubank Boulevard in northeast Albuquerque. Initial reports came in as a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash, but…

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Amani King

Male, age 24 · Durham, North Carolina

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Amani King, 24, a Black/African American man, was shot and killed on the afternoon of July 2, 2025, in the 1400 block of East Cornwallis Road in Durham, North Carolina, inside The Churchill Apartments, a gated complex in southern Durham. Officers were…

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Ebonee McNiel

Female, age 35 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Ebonee McNiel, 35, a Black / African American woman, was found shot to death around midday on July 2, 2025, inside a southeast Charlotte townhome off Village Lake Drive, along Pebblestone Drive in the Independence Division. First responders with Medic…

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Promise Quick

Female, age 15 · Mc Leansville, North Carolina

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the blue early hours of July 2, 2025, Promise Quick, age 15, a female teenager, was found shot to death inside a home on Hooper Road in McLeansville, North Carolina, where she had been dog-sitting. Deputies with the Guilford County Sheriff's Office were…

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Andrew J. Cassell

Male, age 32 · Akron, Ohio

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

Andrew J. Cassell, 32, male, was discovered on the evening of July 2, 2025, inside a residence on the 90 block of Kent Court in Akron after a caller reported what initially sounded like a burglary and an unknown person passed out upstairs. Responding officers…

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Deshawn Carroway

Male, age 29 · Columbia, South Carolina

Killed Jul 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the early morning hours of July 2, 2025, Deshawn J. Carroway, a 29-year-old male from Columbia, South Carolina, was fatally shot at a CK Mart gas station on Broad River Road. The incident occurred around 4 a.m. when deputies responded to a call of shots…

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Dates are the day last seen (missing), the day of death, or when the date of death is unknown the day found or reported missing (deaths by force), the day found (unidentified and unclaimed), the victim's date of death (serial killers) and the day of the attack (mass murders). Solved, located, identified and claimed cases are not listed.