Death by Force

Tamon E. Choate

Male, age 18 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed May 4, 2009 · 17 years ago

On May 4, 2009, 18-year-old Tamon E. Choate was fatally shot in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. The incident occurred on Tonawanda Street at approximately 7:19 PM, when Boston police discovered Choate lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was…

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Joseph Andre Townsend

Male, age 28 · St. Louis, Missouri

Killed May 4, 2009 · 17 years ago

Joseph Andre Townsend, a 28-year-old man from St. Louis, Missouri, was Black, and the few details shared here only deepen the ache of what’s missing. A life is not a headline, not a single line in a record, not a name that can be spoken once and then tucked…

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Raymond McDaniel

Male · Dayton, Ohio

Killed May 4, 2009 · 17 years ago

Raymond McDaniel, also known as "Byrd," was killed on May 4, 2009, in Dayton, Ohio. He was 28 years old at the time of his death, and his case remains unsolved. The homicide took place in Montgomery County, and the Dayton Police Department was responsible for…

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Tyree Spaid

Male, age 25 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Found May 4, 2009 · 17 years ago

Tyree Spaid, a 25-year-old resident of Philadelphia, was tragically shot and killed on May 4, 2009. His body was found on the 2600 block of North Douglas Street, where the fatal incident took place. The investigation into Spaid's murder remains open, and no…

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Gerald Jones

Male, age 47 · Oakland, California

Found May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On May 4, 2008, Gerald Jones, age 47, was shot and killed in Oakland, California. His death occurred in an area that has long been plagued by violence, particularly in East and West Oakland, which accounted for a significant portion of the city's homicides.…

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Biniam Gebreyesus

Male, age 24 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early morning hours of May 4, 2008, a night that began with the promise of celebration ended in tragedy for 24-year-old Biniam Gebreyesus. An African-American man, Gebreyesus and his friends had traveled to Washington, D.C., drawn by an invitation to a…

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Ishma Stewart

Female, age 20 · Chicago, Illinois

Found May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Ishma Stewart, a 20-year-old college student, was tragically shot and killed on May 4, 2008, in Chicago's South Side. Ishma, a journalism student at Loyola University Chicago, was sitting in a car at the time of the shooting in the Canaryville neighborhood.…

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Earnest Lenoir

Male, age 27 · St. Louis, Missouri

Killed May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Earnest Lenoir was a 27-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri. Trying to trace exactly what happened to him through publicly available reporting and official online materials is like following footprints that fade mid-stride: his name appears in…

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Donjuan White

Male, age 25 · Houston, Texas

Found May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On May 4, 2008, 25-year-old Donjuan White was fatally shot in Houston, Texas, in a tragic incident that highlighted the city’s struggles with violent crime. White was reportedly standing outside with a group of people in the early morning hours when an…

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Cody Faircloth

Male, age 17 · Southaven, Mississippi

Killed May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the spring of 2008, the life of 17-year-old Cody Faircloth was tragically cut short. On the evening of May 4th, in Southaven, Mississippi, Faircloth, a male, was fatally wounded in a shooting. The violence of that night also claimed the life of his friend…

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James Liner

Male, age 17 · Southaven, Mississippi

Killed May 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

A tragic incident in Southaven, Mississippi, on May 4, 2008, resulted in the death of 17-year-old James Liner. The young man, along with another 17-year-old, Cody Faircloth, lost his life to gun violence. The event was a triple shooting, though details about…

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Eveline Ashbaugh

Female, age 60 · Delaware, Ohio

Found May 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

Eveline Ashbaugh, age 60, was found murdered on May 5, 2007, in her home on Buttermilk Hill Road in Delaware, Ohio. Eveline, a well-known llama farmer, was last heard from on the evening of May 4, 2007, around 11:30 p.m. The following morning, when Eveline…

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Brittany McGlone

Female, age 19 · Winnsboro, Texas

Killed May 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

On May 4, 2007, 19-year-old Brittany Danielle McGlone was found brutally murdered in her boyfriend's home in Winnsboro, Texas. After completing her overnight shift at Lowe's Distribution Center in Mount Vernon, she went to her boyfriend's residence to rest.…

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Alex Roy

Male, age 60 · Boston, Georgia

Killed May 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

Alex Roy “Al” Suarez Sr., a 60-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Boston, Georgia, died on May 4, 2007, in a tragedy that unfolded not on a dark roadside or in some drawn-out manhunt, but inside the police station where he served. Online memorial and…

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Stefan S Mitchell

Male, age 23 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed May 4, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the spring of 2005, the life of a young Louisville man, known to his loved ones as 'B.T.,' was tragically cut short. Stefan S. Mitchell, a 23-year-old Black male, was a father to three children: Darriona, Darrion, and Terrion Jones. His life, however, came…

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Romeo Macale Bartholomew

Male, age 49 · Alhambra, California

Killed May 4, 2004 · 22 years ago

Romeo Macale Bartholomew, a 49-year-old resident of Alhambra, California, tragically lost his life on May 9, 2004. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Bartholomew was fatally shot, marking a violent end to his life. The incident occurred in…

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Reyna Estorgia Gonzalez

Female, age 18 · Alton, Texas

Killed May 4, 2004 · 22 years ago

Reyna Estorgia Gonzalez, an 18-year-old Hispanic female, tragically lost her life on May 4, 2004, in Alton, Texas. The circumstances surrounding her death were deeply distressing, as she was found deceased in an RV near Alton. An autopsy revealed that she had…

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Robert Laquan

Male, age 26 · Wheeling, West Virginia

Killed May 4, 2003 · 23 years ago

Robert Dante Delresse Lequan Creighton was a 25-year-old Black/African American man whose life ended in a fatal shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, during the early morning hours of May 4, 2003. Funeral-home records give his birth date as October 8, 1977…

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Keith John McKee

Male, age 60 · Long Beach, California

Killed May 4, 2000 · 26 years ago

The circumstances surrounding the death of Keith John McKee remain shrouded in silence decades after his life was cut short in coastal Southern California. A sixty-year-old white man, Keith John McKee died on May 4, 2000, in the city of Long Beach. Despite…

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Leroy Tank Williams

Male, age 47 · Tallulah, Louisiana

Killed May 4, 1995 · 31 years ago

On a spring day in Tallulah, Louisiana, Patrolman Leroy 'Tank' Williams was engaged in the routine duties of law enforcement, a role he had carried out for the community he served. On May 4, 1995, the 47-year-old male officer was tasked with serving a…

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Toni Ann Burdine

Female, age 32 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed May 4, 1995 · 31 years ago

On May 4, 1995, the body of 32-year-old Toni Ann Burdine, a white female, was discovered in an open field in Northeast Washington, D.C. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Her clothes were partially torn away, and her shoes had been knocked off. At…

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Aneta Muriel Huaman

Female · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed May 4, 1994 · 32 years ago

On a tragic evening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Aneta Muriel Huaman, a female, found her life cut short by a senseless act of violence. On May 4, 1994, while she was housesitting for her common-law husband's sister in north Tulsa, an event unfolded that would end in…

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Milton Joseph Bradley

Male, age 72 · Savannah, Georgia

Killed May 4, 1994 · 32 years ago

Milton Joseph Bradley, a 72-year-old White male, was living in Savannah, Georgia, when his life crossed with a drifter named Gary Ray Bowles in the spring of 1994. Bradley was remembered in later reporting as a World War II Navy veteran, a familiar local…

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Timothy Dean Gorisch

Male, age 26 · Fort Myers, Florida

Killed May 4, 1993 · 33 years ago

On May 4, 1993, at approximately 10:21 p.m. deputies were dispatched to Long John Silver’s, 975 Pine Ridge Road, North Naples, in reference to an armed robbery and shooting in progress. A cook at the restaurant told deputies that he was working when two men…

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Ronald Ernst

Male, age 41 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed May 4, 1985 · 41 years ago

Caucasian/White male Ronald R. Ernst, age 41, died on May 4, 1985. Online traces of his life anchor him in Alaska in the mid-1980s, and a short memorial profile fixes his date of death while family-history entries echo the same day, giving only the barest…

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Michelle Kasperek

Female, age 13 · Buffalo, New York

Killed May 4, 1984 · 42 years ago

On a spring evening in Buffalo, New York, 13-year-old Michelle Kasperek, a White female, was at her family's home on St. Florian Street where her older brother was hosting a party. It was May 4, 1984, and with their parents separated and neither present that…

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Jean Simmons Abla

Female, age 35 · San Jon, New Mexico

Killed May 4, 1983 · 43 years ago

In the fall of 1982, a 35-year-old Caucasian woman named Jean Simmons Abla, who had moved to San Jon, New Mexico, to be closer to her family, vanished. The last time anyone saw her was on October 6, 1982, at a local bar. The following day, her car was…

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Jimmie Roberts

Male, age 18 · Thorn Creek, Illinois

Killed May 4, 1983 · 43 years ago

Jimmie T. Roberts, an 18-year-old African American male, was found deceased on May 9, 1983, in Thorn Creek, Cook County, Illinois. Born on February 2, 1965, in Indiana, Roberts was discovered with thirty-five stab wounds to his body. His pants had been pulled…

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Richard Arlen Raynor

Female, age 43 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed May 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the spring of 1982, a quiet Las Vegas neighborhood was shattered by a brutal act of violence that left a family torn apart. On May 4, the 13-year-old daughter of Richard Arlen Raynor, a 43-year-old Caucasian male, made a horrific discovery upon returning…

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Orhan Gündüz

Male · Somerville, Massachusetts

Killed May 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

On the evening of May 4, 1982, Orhan Gündüz, a White male of Turkish ethnicity, was driving his car through the busy streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. As he paused in rush-hour traffic near Union Square, a lone figure dressed in a jogging suit approached…

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David Doering

Male, age 23 · North-chicago, Illinois

Killed May 4, 1980 · 46 years ago

Patrolman David T. Doering, a 23-year-old white male, tragically lost his life on May 4, 1980, in North Chicago, Illinois. David T. Doering was serving with the North Chicago Police Department at the time of his death. On that fateful evening, he was…

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Colin Jacobs

Male, age 3 · San Diego, California

Killed May 4, 1979 · 47 years ago

Colin Jacobs, a 3-year-old boy, was tragically murdered on May 4, 1979, in his home in Normal Heights, San Diego, California. He was killed alongside his mother, Suzanne Jacobs, a 31-year-old woman. Their deaths were part of a series of brutal murders…

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Mark Alfonso

Male, age 19 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed May 4, 1978 · 48 years ago

On May 4, 1978, a mother's visit to her son's home at 1801 S. 91st E. Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ended in a tragic discovery. Inside, she found her son, Mark Alfonso, deceased. Investigators determined that Alfonso, a male, had been fatally shot. The…

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Suzanne Camille Jacobs

Female, age 31 · San Diego, California

Killed May 4, 1978 · 48 years ago

Suzanne Camille Jacobs, a 31-year-old woman, was tragically murdered on May 4, 1979, in her home in Normal Heights, San Diego, California. She was found slain alongside her 3-year-old son, Colin Jacobs. The perpetrator of this heinous crime was identified as…

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Nancy Grigsby

Female, age 22 · Withamsville, Ohio

Killed May 4, 1977 · 49 years ago

Nancy Lourie Grigsby, a 23-year-old White female from Withamsville, Ohio, was tragically murdered in 1976. She was one of several victims in a string of killings that spanned from 1975 to 1977. Nancy disappeared on May 4, 1976, while on her way to meet her…

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George Walter Henderson II

Male, age 28 · Cheyenne, Wyoming

Killed May 4, 1973 · 53 years ago

George Walter Henderson II, a 28-year-old White male, died in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 4, 1973, during what was supposed to be a major narcotics enforcement action. He was serving with the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Criminal…

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Allison Krause

Female, age 19 · Kent, Ohio

Killed May 4, 1970 · 56 years ago

Allison Beth Krause, a 19-year-old Jewish female student at Kent State University, was one of four students killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. The shootings occurred as students protested against…

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Jeffrey Glenn Miller

Male, age 20 · Kent, Ohio

Killed May 4, 1970 · 56 years ago

Jeffrey Glenn Miller, a 20-year-old Jewish American student at Kent State University, was killed on May 4, 1970, during the Kent State shootings. Miller was participating in a protest against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and the presence of…

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Sandra Lee Scheuer

Female, age 20 · Kent, Ohio

Killed May 4, 1970 · 56 years ago

Sandra Lee Scheuer, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. On May 4, 1970, she was tragically killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during the Kent State shootings. Scheuer was shot once in the neck with an M-1 rifle…

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William Knox Schroeder

Male, age 19 · Kent, Ohio

Killed May 4, 1970 · 56 years ago

William Knox Schroeder, a 19-year-old Caucasian male, was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. On May 4, 1970, he was tragically killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. Schroeder was not actively participating…

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Emmett Edmonds

Male, age 49 · Mountain Home, Arkansas

Killed May 4, 1968 · 58 years ago

In the quiet community of Mountain Home, Arkansas, the morning of May 4, 1968, was shattered by violence and the loss of a dedicated public servant. Baxter County Sheriff Emmett O. Edmonds, a 49-year-old male, was killed during a jailbreak at the Baxter…

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Jhonny Lajoie

Male, age 32 · Taunton, Massachusetts

Killed May 4, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the typically quiet neighborhood of Highland Street in Taunton, Massachusetts, a grim discovery was made on the morning of May 4, 2024. Thirty-two-year-old Jhonny Lajoie, a Taunton resident born in Port Au Prince, Haiti, was found deceased inside a…

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Richard Lewis

Male, age 59 · Auburn, California

Killed May 4, 2023 · 3 years ago

On May 4, 2023, 59-year-old Richard Lewis from Auburn, California, was fatally shot during a family dispute in the community of Martell, Amador County. Deputies responded to reports of a family dispute and shots fired around 7:30 p.m. in the 10000 block of…

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Davon Sullivan

Male, age 24 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed May 4, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the afternoon of May 4, 2022, a dispute in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. turned fatal for 24-year-old Davon Sullivan, a male resident of Southeast. The incident unfolded around 3:39 p.m. in the 2300 block of Green Street, Southeast, where…

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Edwin Gomez

Male, age 25 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed May 4, 2022 · 4 years ago

Edwin Gomez, a 25-year-old male from Chicago, IL, tragically passed away on May 30, 2022. His death has been publicly announced by Martinez Funeral Home in Chicago, where his obituary was published. Edwin was born on February 4, 1997, and his passing at such…

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Shaquille Dixon

Male, age 29 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed May 4, 2022 · 4 years ago

Shaquille Dixon, a 29-year-old man from Chester, PA, tragically lost his life on May 4, 2022. Dixon was shot inside the KNF Market on Third Street, Chester, around 10:15 a.m. According to the police affidavit, Dixon was found lying on the floor with a gunshot…

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Larry Petway

Male, age 35 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed May 4, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the bright afternoon of a Saturday in May 2019, tragedy struck in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Baltimore. Larry Darnell Petway, a 35-year-old man, was in the 800 block of Gretna Court when he was shot. The incident, which unfolded around 12:30 p.m.…

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Alton Lee

Male, age 32 · Los-angeles, California

Killed May 4, 2018 · 8 years ago

Alton Kyle Lee, a 32-year-old man from Los Angeles, California, was tragically shot and killed on May 4, 2018. The incident occurred around 9:55 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Broadway in the Florence neighborhood. According to the Los Angeles County…

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