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Kortez Lamar Peoples, an 18-year-old male of African American ethnicity from Maple Heights, Ohio, tragically died on December 7, 2013, at Metro Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born on June 4, 1995, to Rodney Peoples and Pamela Smith. Kortez was a student at Tri C in Cleveland and was a member of the Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Blytheville, Arkansas.

On the evening of his death, Kortez was shot on Warrensville Center Road between Maple Heights Boulevard and Raymond St ...Read More

Victim Details

Kortez Peoples

Male

Black / African American

Cleveland

OH

2013-12-07

18

Kortez

Peoples

04/13/2026