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Deaths by Force on March 2

620 open cases in our database happened on March 2. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (395)

Death by Force

Gregory Wayne Parker

Male, age 43 · Weogufka, Alabama
Killed Mar 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the quiet community of Weogufka, Alabama, the life of 43-year-old Gregory Wayne Parker, a male resident, was cut short in early March of 2015. His death, which occurred at his residence, marked a grim milestone for Coosa County as its first homicide in…

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Death by Force

George Lutak

Male, age 59 · Marlboro, New Jersey
Killed Mar 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

On a Monday morning in Marlboro, New Jersey, a quiet residential street became the scene of a grim discovery. Inside a home on Wilson Avenue, 59-year-old George Lutak, a male resident, was found dead. The cause of his death was a gunshot wound. The discovery…

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Death by Force

Pervis Patterson

Male, age 33 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Mar 2, 2010 · 16 years ago

Pervis Patterson, a 33-year-old Black man, was found dead on March 2, 2010, on the eastbound 210 Freeway near Foothill Boulevard in the Lake View Terrace area of Los Angeles. His body was discovered bound in a plastic bag along the freeway by a Caltrans…

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Pamela Payne-Bennett

Female, age 55 · Lake, Indiana
Killed Mar 2, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the early afternoon of a cold Monday in March 2009, a security guard at the Hammond Marina in Indiana approached a black Hummer H2 parked on the boat ramp. The guard informed the occupants, 55-year-old Pamela Payne-Bennett and 39-year-old Calvin Douchee…

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Death by Force

Robert Mcghee

Male, age 62 · Atlanta, Georgia
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

Robert McGhee was 62 years old when he was killed in Atlanta on Sunday, March 2, 2008. The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit investigated, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Atlanta from 2007 through 2017, lists it as…

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Death by Force

Jonathan Hurtado

Male, age 18 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Mar 2, 2007 · 19 years ago

Jonathan Hurtado, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, California, tragically lost his life on March 2, 2007. He was shot in a park located at 127 South Pecan Street in Boyle Heights. According to reports, Hurtado was approached by another Latino youth who either…

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Death by Force

Richard Cossio Gonzalez

Male, age 53 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Mar 2, 2003 · 23 years ago

Richard Cossio Gonzalez was 53 years old when he died on Sunday, March 2, 2003, in downtown Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 100 Winston St. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed…

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Henry Johnson

Male, age 21 · Portland, Oregon
Killed Mar 2, 2000 · 26 years ago

On the evening of March 2, 2000, a young Black/African American man named Henry Jay Johnson, aged 21, was found dead in Portland, Oregon. The discovery was made after police responded to reports of shots fired in the area of Northeast Rodney Avenue and…

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Death by Force

Joseph Pala

Male, age 39 · Douglas, Georgia
Killed Mar 2, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the quiet town of Douglas, Georgia, the evening of March 2, 1988, ended in a brutal act of violence that claimed the life of 39-year-old Joseph V. Pala. A manager at the Wickes Lumber Company, Pala was closing up the store for the night when he was met…

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Death by Force

Jefferson Chason

Male, age 47 · Fayetteville, North Carolina
Killed Mar 2, 1907 · 119 years ago

Jefferson A. Chason, aged 47, was the Chief of Police in Fayetteville, North Carolina. On March 2, 1907, he was fatally wounded while attempting to arrest a man suspected of illegally selling whiskey from his home. The incident occurred in an alley on Church…

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Death by Force

Owen Lockamy

Male · Fayetteville, North Carolina
Killed Mar 2, 1907 · 119 years ago

On March 2, 1907, Patrolman Owen Lockamy of the Fayetteville Police Department was fatally shot while attempting to arrest a man named Tom Walker for illegally selling whiskey from his home. Lockamy, aged 30, was killed instantly when Walker opened fire on…

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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.