Deaths by Force on September 9

Deaths by Force (481)

Death by Force10th anniversary

Wade Howard

Male, age 20 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

On the evening of September 9, 2016, in the West Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, a young life was tragically cut short. Wade L. Howard, a 20-year-old male from the Hill District, was inside an apartment building on De Raud Street when a man entered and…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jaylin Mcgowan

Male, age 20 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the late hours of a warm early autumn evening in Memphis, Tennessee, the life of 20-year-old Jaylin Mazel McGowan was tragically cut short. On Friday, September 9, 2016, McGowan, a Black/African American male, was fatally shot at the River Trace Apartments…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Joshua Cooper

Male, age 17 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

In the fading light of a September evening in Memphis, a life was cut tragically short, leaving a family grappling with questions and a sense of justice unfulfilled. On September 9, 2016, 17-year-old Joshua Cooper, a young male, was fatally shot at the…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Maria Rodriguez

Female, age 27 · El-paso, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Maria Rodriguez, a 27-year-old woman of Hispanic ethnicity, tragically died on September 9, 2016, in El Paso, Texas. She was fatally shot inside her home in the 8600 block of Guadalupe Drive near Diana Drive. Homicide detectives believe that an unknown man…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Mark Salinas

Male, age 37 · San-diego, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Mark Salinas, a 37-year-old man from Alice, Texas, was found shot to death on a ranch in Rositas, between Freer and San Diego, on September 9, 2016. His sister discovered his body around 11 a.m. Salinas was shot in the back of the head, and no weapons were…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Robert Poynter

Male, age 47 · Royse-city, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Captain Robert Louis Poynter III, aged 47, was a dedicated firefighter and paramedic with the University Park Fire Department in Dallas, Texas. Born on April 30, 1969, in Utica, Michigan, he was known for his unwavering commitment to his community and his…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Victoria Polanco

Female, age 51 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Victoria Polanco, a 51-year-old woman of Latin American descent, was tragically killed on September 9, 2016, in Dallas, Texas. She was the owner of Pupuseria Victoria, a small restaurant in East Dallas where she served traditional Latin American food. Polanco…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Chaz Johnson-Wilcher

Male, age 21 · Oakland, California

Found Sep 9, 2011 · 15 years ago

On September 9, 2011, 21-year-old Chaz Johnson-Wilcher was tragically killed in Oakland, California. He was one of 110 homicide victims in the city that year. The incident occurred in West Oakland, a neighborhood known for its struggles with gun violence.…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Marcus Hopkins

Male, age 21 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Sep 9, 2011 · 15 years ago

In Baltimore, Maryland, the life of Marcus Darrell Hopkins, a 21-year-old Black male, was cut short on September 9, 2011. Born on January 6, 1990, to Tyra Heath-Wilson and Marico Hopkins, Sr., he was known to his loved ones as "Marky." He was a graduate of…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Victor Harris III

Male, age 19 · Knoxville, Tennessee

Killed Sep 9, 2011 · 15 years ago

On a November afternoon in 2011, the life of 19-year-old Victor Michael Harris III, a Black male, was tragically cut short in Knoxville, Tennessee. The young man was at the Arbor Place apartment complex on South Hall of Fame Drive when he was struck by…

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Death by Force15th anniversary

Victor Michael Harris III

Male, age 19 · Knoxville, Tennessee

Killed Sep 9, 2011 · 15 years ago

In the autumn of 2011, the life of 19-year-old Victor Michael Harris III was tragically cut short in Knoxville, Tennessee. An African American male, Harris was shot and killed on November 9, 2011, in what police have described as a gang-related shooting. The…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Walter T Jones Jr

Male · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Sep 9, 2006 · 20 years ago

In the early hours of a Saturday morning in Washington, D.C., the life of Walter T. Jones Jr. was tragically cut short. On September 9, 2006, at approximately 12:33 a.m., Jones, a male also known by the nickname 'Baba-Lu,' was fatally stabbed in the 3300…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Derek Giles

Male, age 17 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Sep 9, 2006 · 20 years ago

Derek Lamar Giles, a 17-year-old African American male, tragically passed away on September 10, 2006, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of various investigations and legal proceedings. Derek's untimely…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Duane Banks

Male · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 9, 2006 · 20 years ago

Duane Lee Banks, a male known to many in Chester as “Duane B,” was shot and killed shortly after midnight on September 9, 2006, outside the 501 Bar in Chester, Pennsylvania. Online source material describes him as someone who had arrived at the bar after an…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Miguel Escobar Jr.

Male, age 22 · Houston, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2006 · 20 years ago

Miguel Escobar Jr., a 22-year-old Hispanic male, tragically lost his life on September 9, 2006, in Houston, Texas. He was fatally shot during an apparent carjacking outside his home on Larry Street in north Houston. Witnesses reported seeing four Hispanic men…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

Marcus Cruz

Male, age 17 · New Bedford, Massachusetts

Killed Sep 9, 2001 · 25 years ago

On September 9, 2001, at approximately 2:45 AM, a tragic incident occurred in New Bedford, Massachusetts, resulting in the death of 17-year-old Marcus Cruz. The incident took place at the corner of Chancery and Kempton Streets, where Cruz was found shot on…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

George Nague Bernardino

Male, age 48 · Sacramento, California

Killed Sep 9, 2001 · 25 years ago

George Nague Bernardino, aged 48, tragically lost his life on September 9, 2001, in Sacramento, California, during a horrific shooting spree carried out by Joseph Ferguson. Ferguson, a 21-year-old security guard for Burns International Security, embarked on a…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

John Derek Glimstad

Male, age 19 · Sacramento, California

Killed Sep 9, 2001 · 25 years ago

John Derek Glimstad, a 19-year-old from Sacramento, California, tragically lost his life on September 9, 2001, during a violent rampage carried out by Joseph Ferguson. Ferguson, a 21-year-old former security guard for Burns International Security, embarked on…

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Death by Force25th anniversary

Marsha Marie Doty Jackson

Female, age 32 · Sacramento, California

Killed Sep 9, 2001 · 25 years ago

Marsha Marie Doty Jackson, aged 32, tragically lost her life on September 9, 2001, in Sacramento, California. Her death was part of a horrific spree killing carried out by Joseph Ferguson, a 21-year-old security guard. Ferguson's rampage began on September 8…

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Death by Force35th anniversary

Adolfo Morales Jr

Male, age 17 · San Antonio, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 1991 · 35 years ago

On September 9, 1991, Adolfo Morales Jr., a 17-year-old resident of San Antonio, Texas, was fatally shot while sitting outside a Church’s Chicken restaurant located at 1923 Goliad Road. Morales had just finished his shift and was seated with coworkers when an…

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Death by Force70th anniversary

Charles Taylor Smith

Male, age 27 · Orland, California

Killed Sep 9, 1956 · 70 years ago

Charles Taylor Smith, a 27-year-old officer with the California Highway Patrol, tragically lost his life on September 9, 1956, near Orland, California. On that fateful day, Officer Smith had stopped a vehicle for speeding on U.S. Highway 99. During the stop…

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Death by Force5th anniversary

Alvandro Torrez

Male, age 25 · San-antonio, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2021 · 5 years ago

Alvandro Angel Torrez IV, a 25-year-old Hispanic male, was found dead in a ditch on the south side of San Antonio, Texas, on September 9, 2021. His body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head, wrapped in a blanket and thrown over a guardrail. The San…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Jose Benitez

Male, age 71 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Jose Benitez, a 71-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on September 9, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. The cause of death was a gunshot wound, marking his death as a homicide. This incident was reported by the Los Angeles Times, which detailed…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Kevion Johnson

Male, age 26 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Kevion Semaj Johnson, a 26-year-old man from Los Angeles, was tragically shot and killed on September 9, 2016. The incident occurred around 7 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Broadway in the Florence neighborhood. According to the Los Angeles County coroner’s…

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Death by Force10th anniversary

Liborio Romero

Male, age 50 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Sep 9, 2016 · 10 years ago

Liborio Romero was 50 years old when he died on Friday, September 9, 2016, in Vermont Vista. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 11325 S. Figueroa St. His death was ruled a homicide, and…

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Death by Force20th anniversary

Brenda Renae Curnes

Female, age 36 · Clinton, Iowa

Killed Sep 9, 2006 · 20 years ago

In the late summer of 2006, the life of 36-year-old Brenda Renae Curnes, a female resident of Clinton, Iowa, was tragically cut short in a violent act that stunned the community. On the evening of Saturday, September 9, 2006, officers from the Clinton Police…

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Ashia La Shai Moore

Female, age 16 · Lake City, Florida

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the late afternoon of Wednesday, September 9, 2026, a sense of unease led to a welfare check at an apartment complex on U.S. Highway 441 South in Lake City, Florida. Around 4 p.m., deputies from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office arrived at apartment…

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Dorian D. Smith Jr

Male, age 16 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the heart of Chicago's Grant Park, a place usually filled with the sounds of laughter and the rolling of skateboards, a tragedy unfolded on the evening of September 9, 2026, forever altering the lives of a local family. That night, 16-year-old Dorian D.…

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Jayden Gekko Velasquez

Male, age 18 · Brooklyn, New York

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

On the evening of September 9, 2026, just hours before he was to begin his senior year of high school, 18-year-old Jayden Gekko Velasquez was fatally shot in his Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood. The shooting occurred at approximately 10 p.m. outside of…

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Jayden Jaquan Sanders

Male, age 19 · Indianapolis, Indiana

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

Jayden Jaquan Sanders, a 19-year-old man, was fatally shot late on September 9, 2026, while riding in the back seat of an Uber on Indianapolis’ far east side. The shooting unfolded near South Mitthoefer Road and Bucktail Boulevard, in the area of the Trails…

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Jorge Herrera

Male, age 28 · San Diego, California

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

On a late Wednesday evening in the Southcrest neighborhood of San Diego, a dispute between acquaintances escalated into a fatal shooting, claiming the life of 28-year-old Jorge Herrera. The tragic incident unfolded around 11:00 p.m. on September 9, 2026…

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Juron Sharell Stapleton

Male, age 21 · Fort Wayne, Indiana

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

On the evening of September 9, 2026, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the life of 21-year-old Juron Sharell Stapleton was cut short by gunfire in what has been ruled a double homicide. Stapleton, along with 25-year-old Tavion Lashawn Hamlet, was found deceased in the…

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Lavinia Delora Brown

Female, age 31 · Centreville, Virginia

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

On a quiet Wednesday evening in Centreville, Virginia, the life of 31-year-old Lavinia Delora Brown was tragically cut short in an act of domestic violence. On September 9, 2026, Fairfax County police were dispatched to a townhouse in the 6300 block of Sharps…

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Michael Rumbel

Male, age 47 · Dunlap, Tennessee

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the quiet community of Dunlap, Tennessee, the life of 46-year-old Michael Rumbel came to a tragic and unexpected end on September 9, 2026. Investigators from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were called to a residence in the 100 block of Green Forest…

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Phoenix Blowe

Male, age 17 · San Antonio, Texas

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in San Antonio, Texas, the life of 17-year-old Phoenix Blowe was tragically cut short. On September 9, 2026, police were called to the 5900 block of Monica Place on the city's West Side to investigate a report of a…

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Steven Medina

Male, age 23 · Long Beach, California

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the late afternoon of September 9, 2026, the life of 23-year-old Steven Medina was tragically cut short in a fatal shooting in Long Beach, California. The incident occurred around 3:25 p.m. in the vicinity of 21st Street and Cerritos Avenue. Officers from…

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Tavion Lashawn Hamlet

Male, age 25 · Fort Wayne, Indiana

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the late summer of 2026, the life of 25-year-old Tavion Lashawn Hamlet was tragically cut short in a burst of gunfire in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the evening of September 9th, Hamlet, along with 21-year-old Juron Sharell Stapleton, was found deceased in the…

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Timothy Price II

Male, age 29 · Verona, Mississippi

Killed Sep 9, 2026 · this year

In the small town of Verona, Mississippi, the afternoon of September 9, 2026, was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 29-year-old Timothy Price II. The shooting occurred at the Super C convenience store on Raymond Avenue, a place…

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Tedarius Montez Seawright

Male, age 33 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the late hours of a Tuesday night in Birmingham, Alabama, a dispute ended in the death of 33-year-old Tedarius Montez Seawright. The male victim died on September 9, 2025, in an apartment within the Elyton Village public housing community. The incident…

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Amona Sam

Male, age 23 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

A 23-year-old Black/African American male, Amona Sam of Anchorage, Alaska, was killed on the evening of September 9, 2025, after a confrontation in the Spenard neighborhood spilled into the common area of a residence on the 1300 block of West 26th Avenue.…

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Carl John Nielsen Jr.

Male, age 44 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the darkness just after 3 a.m. on September 9, 2025, Anchorage patrol officers were dispatched to the snow‐dump area by Davis Park at 5081 Mountain View Drive. They found two people lying outside—one of them was White Carl John “CJ” Nielsen Jr., age…

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Sara Ashley Cummings

Female, age 34 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Sara Ashley Cummings, a 34-year-old female from Anchorage, was found dead before dawn on September 9, 2025, in the snow-dump area by Davis Park along 5081 Mountain View Drive. Police were dispatched around 3:18 a.m. after a nearby person reported hearing…

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Aryanna Avila

Female, age 23 · Baldwin Park, California

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Aryanna Avila, 23, a Hispanic female, died on September 9, 2025, after being shot during a car-to-car attack in the San Gabriel Valley. The shooting was reported at about 1:34–1:35 a.m. near Arrow Highway and Irwindale Avenue; officers soon found her in the…

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Mollie Schefer

Female, age 47 · Santa Rosa, California

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Mollie Schefer, 47, a Santa Rosa resident, was found shot inside her home on Cecilia Drive in the pre-dawn hours of September 9, 2025. Officers responding around 4:30 a.m. discovered a shattered rear sliding glass door, an open back gate, and, on the…

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Karimar Nicole Rios

Female, age 18 · Orlando, Florida

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Karimar Nicole Rios, 18, a Hispanic/Latina woman, was discovered with a gunshot wound inside a crashed vehicle in Orange County, Florida, in the early hours of September 9, 2025. Deputies responded around 2:10 a.m. to reports of a car crash near Sand Lake…

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Kevelle Byrd

Male, age 17 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the late hours of a Tuesday night in Atlanta, tragedy befell 17-year-old Kevelle Byrd, a Black male, forever altering the lives of his family and friends. On September 9, 2025, at approximately 11:30 p.m., the sound of gunfire echoed through the Villages…

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Jason Holt

Male, age 44 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Jason Holt, 44, a male from Chicago, was standing near a sidewalk just after 1 p.m. on September 9, 2025, in the 2500 block of East 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood when three people approached him. At least one of them opened fire, striking him…

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Michael King

Male, age 31 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 9, 2025 · 1 year ago

Michael King, 31, a Black male, was standing on the sidewalk in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood when a white vehicle glided up to the 7400 block of South Kimbark Avenue just before 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Someone inside opened fire. Michael…

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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.