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Deaths by Force on May 17

711 open cases in our database happened on May 17. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (504)

Death by Force

Andy Aponte

Male, age 28 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed May 17, 2026 · this year

In the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, a life was cut short on the evening of May 17, 2026. Andy Aponte, a 28-year-old man, was inside a residence when a heated argument broke out. The verbal dispute escalated with tragic suddenness, culminating in…

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John Strachan

Male, age 80 · Saginaw, Michigan
Killed May 17, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the early morning hours of May 17, 2024, 80-year-old John Strachan, a male resident of Bay City, Michigan, was driving his Chevy City Express van northbound on Interstate 75 in Saginaw County. As he neared the Holland Road exit around 4:45 AM, he was…

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Ricardo Rodriguez

Male, age 46 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed May 17, 2024 · 2 years ago

Ricardo Rodriguez, 46, was stabbed to death on the night of Friday, May 17, 2024, in the 4300 block of West 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood, known officially as South Lawndale, on Chicago's Southwest Side. The Chicago Police Department…

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Fanuel Pineda

Male, age 53 · Alameda, California
Killed May 17, 2020 · 6 years ago

Fanuel Pineda, a 53-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on May 17, 2020, in Central-Alameda. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Pineda was shot near 1436 E. 22nd St. The incident occurred on a sidewalk…

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Charles Cecil

Male, age 51 · Kansas-city, Missouri
Killed May 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the early hours of a Friday morning in Kansas City, Missouri, a dispute over a mere five dollars for a small amount of marijuana tragically escalated, leading to the death of 51-year-old Charles Cecil. Recently evicted from their home, Cecil and his…

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Eduardo Castro

Male, age 59 · Los-angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

Eduardo "Eddie Boy" Castro, a 59-year-old Hispanic man, was a long-time member of the Mexican Mafia, having joined the prison-based syndicate in the early 1990s. He and his older brother, Ernesto, grew up in the Varrio Nuevo Estrada gang based in the Estrada…

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Ren David Ely

Male, age 76 · Cumberland-gap, Tennessee
Killed May 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the quiet community of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, the life of Ren David Ely, a 76-year-old male, came to a tragic end on the evening of May 17, 2019. What began as a domestic disturbance call to a residence on Cumberland Estates Road swiftly escalated into…

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Joseph William Kennedy

Male, age 64 · Los Angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2019 · 7 years ago

On May 17, 2019, 64-year-old Joseph William Kennedy died in the city of Los Angeles under circumstances that led investigators and medical examiners to classify his death as a homicide. The official determination was entered into county medical examiner…

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Hai Van Nguyen

Male, age 33 · Stanton, California
Killed May 17, 2018 · 8 years ago

Hai Van Nguyen, a 33-year-old resident of Stanton, California, tragically passed away on May 17, 2018. The circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of significant investigation and legal scrutiny. Nguyen's death was initially reported as a…

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Kathy Schultz

Male, age 58 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed May 17, 2017 · 9 years ago

Kathy Schultz, 58, became a homicide victim on paper on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, when the state's medical examiner ruled that the blunt force injuries she had suffered months earlier near the 3800 block of Eastern Avenue in Baltimore had caused her death. The…

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Alejandro Aldava

Male, age 31 · San-antonio, Texas
Killed May 17, 2015 · 11 years ago

Alejandro Aldava, a 31-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, tragically lost his life on May 17, 2015. He was fatally shot outside Brooks Pub in the 3300 block of Lasses shortly before 2 a.m. Surveillance footage captured an argument between Aldava and…

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Tycer Lee

Male, age 34 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Killed May 17, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the spring of 2014, a weekend in Milwaukee was marked by violence that cut short the life of 34-year-old Tycer Lee. On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Lee, a Black male, was fatally shot near the intersection of 29th and Lisbon. The incident was one of several…

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Martin Lopez

Male, age 40 · Los-angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2014 · 12 years ago

Martin Alfonso Lopez, a 40-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on May 17, 2014, in Sun Valley, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Lopez was fatally shot, marking another somber entry in the city's homicide…

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Judy Faye Hall Capps

Female, age 59 · Nebo, North Carolina
Killed May 17, 2014 · 12 years ago

Judy Faye Hall Capps, a 59-year-old woman from Nebo, NC, was found dead on May 17, 2014. She and her husband, Garry Capps, were discovered at their residence with gunshot wounds to the head. The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office indicated that the incident…

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Ramar Bonner

Male, age 40 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed May 17, 2013 · 13 years ago

Ramar Bonner, a 40-year-old African American male, was tragically shot to death on May 17, 2013, in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, IL. The incident occurred around 8:05 p.m. when police were called to the 200 block of North Mayfield Avenue following…

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Rachelle Vega

Male, age 42 · Fort Dodge, Iowa
Killed May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the early hours of a Sunday morning in Fort Dodge, Iowa, a distress call shattered the quiet of May 17, 2009. At 4:14 a.m., a caller reported that a woman had been shot at a residence at 1323 Fifth Avenue South. Emergency services were dispatched to the…

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Margarita Padilla

Female, age 59 · Los Angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Margarita Padilla was 59 years old when she died on Sunday, May 17, 2009, at her home on the Westside of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 11533 National Boulevard. Her…

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Omar Ramirez

Male, age 32 · Los Angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Omar Ramirez was 32 years old when he died on Sunday, May 17, 2009, in Highland Park, on the northeast side of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 6152 N. Figueroa St. His death was ruled a…

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Lucio Solorzano

Male, age 84 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Lucio Solorzano, 84, was beaten to death on Sunday, May 17, 2009, in the 7000 block of Reisterstown Road in Northwest Baltimore. He died of blunt force injuries. The Baltimore Police Department investigated, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists his…

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Willie Williams

Male, age 43 · St. Louis, Missouri
Killed May 17, 2007 · 19 years ago

Willie Williams was 43 years old when he was killed in St. Louis on Thursday, May 17, 2007. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis through 2017…

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Maurine Tedford Scott

Female · Oplin, Texas
Killed May 17, 2004 · 22 years ago

Maurine Tedford Scott, aged 80, was tragically killed on May 17, 2004, in Oplin, Texas. She was a Caucasian woman. The incident was part of a larger, devastating event where her estranged husband, in a fit of rage, also killed her brother and mother before…

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Heung Pyo Hong

Male, age 72 · Los Angeles, California
Killed May 17, 2003 · 23 years ago

Heung Pyo Hong was 72 years old when he died on Saturday, May 17, 2003, in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma on Westlake Avenue south of Olympic…

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Hilton Theodore

Male, age 31 · Columbia, South Carolina
Killed May 17, 1910 · 116 years ago

Assistant Jailer Hilton Theodore Smith, a 31-year-old male officer with the Columbia Police Department, lived with his wife May and their children in a small cottage on the grounds of the city jail at 1425 Lincoln Street in Columbia, South Carolina. He had…

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Isaac Smith

Male · West-farms, New York
Killed May 17, 1792 · 234 years ago

Deputy Sheriff Isaac Smith, a male, was fatally shot in West-farms, NY, on May 17, 1792. Smith, a Revolutionary War hero, farmer, doctor, and politician, was serving as a New York City deputy sheriff at the time of his death. The incident occurred outside a…

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