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Terez Racy

Male, age 25 · Kansas-city, Missouri

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

On a Sunday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 14, 2014, 25-year-old Terez Marvell Racy was fatally shot while sitting in his car. The incident occurred in the 2000 block of East 37th Street. After being shot multiple times, Racy was driven to a…

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Antwain McConnell

Male, age 30 · Inglewood, California

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Antwain McConnell, a 30-year-old resident of Inglewood, California, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2014. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, McConnell was fatally shot, marking another instance of gun violence in the area. The…

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Hector Ulises Robles

Male, age 43 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Hector Ulises Robles, a 43-year-old Latino, was tragically shot and killed on September 14, 2014, in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. in the 500 block of South Bernal Avenue. According to the Los Angeles County coroner’s…

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Reginald Beamon Jr

Male, age 28 · Oakland, California

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Reginald Beamon Jr., a 28-year-old resident of Oakland, California, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2014. The incident occurred in the early morning hours on the 8200 block of Bancroft Avenue, where Beamon was found shot to death in the street. The…

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Richard Pedro Perez

Male, age 24 · Richmond, California

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Richard Pedro Perez III, known as "Pedie," died on September 14, 2014, in Richmond, California. He was 24 years old at the time of his death. The incident occurred outside Uncle Sam's Liquor Store on Cutting Boulevard. According to reports, Perez was involved…

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Darian Lavan Alston

Male, age 23 · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Darian Lavan Alston, a 23-year-old resident of Jacksonville, Florida, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2014. His death was part of a double homicide that also claimed the life of 34-year-old James William Battle. The incident occurred behind a…

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James William Battle

Male, age 34 · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

James William Battle, aged 34, tragically passed away on September 14, 2014, in Jacksonville, Florida. His death was a result of a violent incident that occurred at 2898 Burke Street. On that fateful day, Battle, along with Darian Lavan Alston, was found dead…

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Jessica Beth Wolford

Female, age 25 · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Jessica Beth Wolford, a 25-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Florida, was tragically found dead on September 14, 2014. Her body was discovered in an open area next to a church on Chase Avenue, near the Moncrief Park community. The Jacksonville Sheriff's…

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Yolanda Samaniego

Female, age 51 · Miami-dade, Florida

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Yolanda Samaniego, a 51-year-old Hispanic woman, was tragically found dead on September 14, 2014, in Miami-Dade, Florida. Her body was discovered burned and decapitated in an open field near the intersection of NW 64th Street and NW 82nd Avenue. Initially…

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Byron Lamar Caceres

Male, age 23 · Sandy-springs, Georgia

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the late afternoon of Sunday, September 14, 2014, a grim discovery was made inside a Sandy Springs, Georgia, apartment that would unravel a story of violence and loss. Byron Lamar Caceres, a 23-year-old male from Norcross, was found deceased alongside…

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Eulalio Freddie Mederos-Vega

Male, age 27 · Sandy-springs, Georgia

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Eulalio 'Freddie' Mederos-Vega, a 27-year-old Hispanic male, was found deceased on September 14, 2014, in his Sandy Springs, Georgia, apartment. The discovery was made by his wife when she returned home. Mederos-Vega was not alone; the body of 23-year-old…

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Jessica Arrendale

Female, age 33 · Smyrna, Georgia

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

On a tragic evening in September 2014, the life of 33-year-old Jessica Arrendale, a female from Smyrna, Georgia, came to a violent and heartbreaking end. The night began with Jessica and the father of her infant daughter, 30-year-old Antoine Davis, returning…

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Charles Labon

Male, age 28 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

On September 14, 2014, 28-year-old African American male Charles Labon was fatally shot in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood. At approximately 1:50 p.m., while walking in the 4100 block of West 16th Street, a gray minivan approached, and an occupant…

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Dwayne McCray

Male, age 20 · Sauk-village, Illinois

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Dwayne McCray, a 20-year-old African American male, was tragically shot to death on September 14, 2014, in Sauk Village, Illinois. The incident occurred in the 21000 block of Peterson Avenue, where McCray was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:40 p.m. The…

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Lamar Blake

Male, age 41 · Rockford, Illinois

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Justice Lamar Blake, a 41-year-old African American male from Rockford, IL, passed away on September 14, 2014. Born on November 26, 1972, he was the son of Justice Grey and Loretta Blake-Sylmon. Justice Blake, affectionately known as 'Chucky,' left behind a…

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Franky Joseph

Male, age 33 · Assumption-parish, Louisiana

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the early morning hours of September 14, 2014, a dispute at a local bar in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, tragically cut short the life of 33-year-old Franky Joseph. The male victim was at the Alexis Sports Bar on Highway 308 in Paincourtville when an…

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Ian Robertson

Male, age 33 · Laplace, Louisiana

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

On the night of September 14, 2014, in Laplace, Louisiana, 33-year-old Ian Robertson, a male resident of Lutcher, was found with a gunshot wound at the intersection of Revere Drive and Essex Drive. St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies…

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Anthony Collins

Male, age 54 · Scranton, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the Pine Brook section of Scranton on a September evening, a dispute between neighbors escalated into a tragic and fatal encounter. The conflict, which reportedly began with a racial slur, ended with the death of 54-year-old Anthony Collins. A male…

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Etab Makhoul

Female, age 36 · Allentown, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Etab Makhoul, a 36-year-old woman of Syrian descent, tragically lost her life on September 14, 2014, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The incident was determined to be a murder-suicide, as her ex-husband, Mouwaffak Mahkoul, also died at the scene. The bodies were…

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Megan Doto

Female, age 26 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Megan Doto, a 26-year-old woman from Philadelphia, PA, tragically lost her life on September 14, 2014. She was eight months pregnant at the time and was struck by a stray bullet while sitting outside her home on Adams Avenue. The shooting occurred when a…

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Mouwaffak L. Makhoul

Male, age 51 · Allentown, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Mouwaffak L. Makhoul, a 51-year-old Syrian-born male from Allentown, Pennsylvania, died on September 14, 2014, in a violent incident that unfolded on East Greenleaf Street and was later ruled a murder-suicide. The case centered not only on his death, but also…

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Thomas Campion

Male, age 65 · Scranton, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the quiet neighborhood of Pine Brook in Scranton, a dispute between two neighbors escalated into a shocking act of violence that left both men dead. On a Sunday evening in September 2014, 65-year-old Thomas Campion, a white male, shot and killed his…

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Gerardo Hernandez

Male, age 26 · Houston, Texas

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Gerardo Hernandez, a 26-year-old Hispanic male, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2014, in Houston, Texas. He was fatally shot outside a gas station located at 15135 Old Humble Road. The incident occurred around 10 p.m., when Hernandez was found…

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Laura Elaine Ogden

Female, age 32 · Flour-bluff, Texas

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Laura Elaine Ogden, a 32-year-old woman from Flour Bluff, Texas, tragically lost her life on September 14, 2014. Laura was one of three victims in a horrific shooting incident that took place at the Marina Village RV park in Flour Bluff. The other victims…

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Pamela Kay Rhodes

Female, age 63 · Flour-bluff, Texas

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Pamela Kay Rhodes, a 63-year-old woman from Flour Bluff, Texas, tragically lost her life on September 14, 2014. She was one of three victims in a horrific shooting incident that took place at the Marina Village RV park. The other victims were identified as…

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Ricky Ray Collier

Male, age 56 · Flour-bluff, Texas

Killed Sep 14, 2014 · 12 years ago

Ricky Ray Collier, a 56-year-old male, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2014, in Flour Bluff, Texas. Collier was one of three victims in a shooting spree carried out by 63-year-old Sammuel Everett Toomey. The incident occurred at the Marina Village…

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Nelson B. Jr.

Male, age 25 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Sep 14, 2013 · 13 years ago

Nelson B. Castillo Jr., 25, a male of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, was shot on the night of September 14, 2013, on Archdale Road in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Police responded to 80 Archdale Road shortly before midnight and found him suffering from…

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Steven Peeples

Male, age 39 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Found Sep 14, 2013 · 13 years ago

Steven Peeples, aged 39, was murdered in North Philadelphia on September 14, 2013. He was found shot in his living room on the 1300 block of West Lippincott Street at around 1:40 a.m. by a family member. Steven had suffered gunshot wounds to both the head and…

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Damien Matteaux

Male, age 23 · Newark, New Jersey

Killed Sep 14, 2013 · 13 years ago

On a late summer afternoon in Newark, New Jersey, the life of 23-year-old Damien Matteaux was tragically cut short. On September 14, 2013, Matteaux, a Black male, was found shot and killed in a parked vehicle in the city's West Ward, near the intersection of…

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NaQuese McCollum

Male, age 16 · Newark, New Jersey

Killed Sep 14, 2013 · 13 years ago

In the late afternoon of September 14, 2013, a sense of grim familiarity washed over Newark's West Ward as police responded to yet another scene of violence. Inside a parked vehicle near the intersection of South 10th Street and 15th Avenue, two young lives…

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Jonathan Akeem Pairre Ferrell

Male, age 24 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Sep 14, 2013 · 13 years ago

Jonathan Akeem Pairre Ferrell, a 24-year-old African American male, tragically lost his life on September 14, 2013, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ferrell, a former college football player for the Florida A&M University Rattlers, was involved in a car crash on…

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Rickey Ligon

Male, age 24 · Tampa, Florida

Found Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

Rickey Santwan Ligons, aged 24, was tragically murdered on September 14, 2012, in Tampa, Florida. His death left a deep impact on his family and friends, who remembered him as a devoted father and a loving son. Rickey is survived by his parents, his child…

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Alex Benison

Male, age 35 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

Alex Benison, aged 35, was fatally shot on September 14, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. His death occurred during a particularly violent year in Chicago, where the city experienced a sharp rise in homicides. Gun violence, driven in part by gang conflicts and the…

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Bryant Felder

Male, age 34 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

On the evening of September 14, 2012, violence struck a residential neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, claiming the life of a 34-year-old Black male named Bryant Felder. The incident occurred in the 7000 block of Chalfonte Avenue, near the intersection with…

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Antonio Bizzle

Male, age 26 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

African American male Antonio Bizzle, aged 26, was discovered deceased on September 14, 2012, in Detroit, Michigan. The incident occurred at a residence located in the 2400 block of Pasadena Street, specifically recorded at 2454 or 2460 Pasadena, situated…

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James A Bradley-Piseno

Male, age 22 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the early afternoon of September 10, 2012, a violent encounter in Kansas City, Missouri, led to the tragic death of James A. Bradley-Piseno, a 22-year-old Black male. At approximately 1:45 p.m., police officers were dispatched to 4004 E. 56th Terrace…

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Jennifer Michelle Smith

Female, age 27 · Robbinsdale, Minnesota

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the quiet Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale, the life of 27-year-old Jennifer Michelle Smith, a White/Caucasian female, was tragically cut short on September 14, 2012. A mother of three, Jennifer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and had made a home for…

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Sam Chubby Edward Small

Male, age 52 · Hampton, Virginia

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

Sam “Chubby” Edward Small, 52, a Black / African American man, was at home in Hampton, Virginia when an ordinary late-summer evening turned violent. On September 6, 2012, at about 9:32 p.m., Hampton Police Communications received a call reporting a shooting…

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Tyrone Hopkins

Male, age 49 · Gary, Indiana

Killed Sep 14, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the late hours of a Thursday evening in Gary, Indiana, 43-year-old Tyrone Hopkins, a Black male known affectionately to friends and family as 'Poe Joe,' was driving on a ramp leading to eastbound Interstate 94. It was approximately 10:40 p.m. on September…

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Mitchell Bell

Male, age 30 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Sep 14, 2010 · 16 years ago

Mitchell B. Bell, a 30-year-old African-American man, was known to family and friends as “Benny,” a husband and father from Fairfax, Virginia whose life was deeply rooted in the Washington, D.C. area. Loved ones later described how he left behind his wife…

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Salomon Abonce

Male, age 43 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Sep 14, 2010 · 16 years ago

On September 14, 2010, Salomon Abonce, a 43-year old Hispanic male, was wounded in a shooting on Chicago's South Side and later pronounced dead at 10:32 p.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Public reporting at the time identified him as living…

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Shanntell Harris

Male, age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Sep 14, 2010 · 16 years ago

The homicide of Male Shanntell Harris occurred on September 14, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois. Harris, aged 21, was among many victims of violence in a year that saw an uptick in homicides across Chicago. According to available records, the incident occurred in…

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Corey Leggs

Male, age 33 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Sep 14, 2010 · 16 years ago

On September 14, 2010, Corey Marnall Leggs, a 33-year-old Black male from Kansas City, Missouri, lost his life in an act of violence that occurred while he was performing a favor for an acquaintance. Leggs was driving his vehicle with two passengers, one of…

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Crystal Dent

Female, age 37 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Sep 14, 2009 · 17 years ago

Crystal Dent was a 37-year-old Black woman whose death on September 14, 2009, left behind only a thin public record and a great deal of unanswered silence. The available information places her in the Atlanta area, with obituary records describing her as a…

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Durrell Neal

Male, age 31 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Sep 14, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the early autumn of 2009, the life of Durrell Neal, a 31-year-old Black male, was tragically cut short on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. On a September day, Neal became another victim of the city's ongoing violence when he was fatally shot. While the…

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Brandon Martin

Male, age 17 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Sep 14, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the late summer of 2008, a young man's life was tragically cut short on a street in Birmingham, Alabama. Seventeen-year-old Brandon Cortez Martin, a male, became a victim of gun violence on September 14th of that year. The specific circumstances…

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Luis Antonio Sanchez-Torres

Male, age 25 · Oakland, California

Found Sep 14, 2008 · 18 years ago

On September 14, 2008, Luis Antonio Sanchez-Torres, a 25-year-old man from Oakland, California, was fatally shot in what became one of the numerous homicides that year in the city. The shooting occurred in a city struggling with high rates of gun violence…

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Ubaldo Pablo

Male, age 20 · Oakland, California

Found Sep 14, 2008 · 18 years ago

Victor Smith, aged 21, was killed on June 19, 2015, in West Oakland, California. The incident occurred around 11:17 p.m. on the 3100 block of Filbert Street. Smith was a passenger in a car when he was shot. Despite attempts to gather more details, little…

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