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Deaths by Force on January 2

599 open cases in our database happened on January 2. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (407)

Death by Force

Darnesha Williams

Female, age 29 · Oakland, California
Killed Jan 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

On the night of January 2, 2025, tragedy struck in Oakland, California, as 29-year-old Darnesha Williams lost her life in a fatal shooting. Williams was shot at a Kwik Serv gas station while attempting to flee her assailant. In a desperate attempt to escape…

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Navdeep Oberoi

Male, age 29 · North Las Vegas, Nevada
Killed Jan 2, 2025 · 1 year ago

On January 2, 2025, the body of 29-year-old Navdeep Oberoi, a male of Indian descent, was discovered near the railroad tracks in the vicinity of West Owens Avenue and Stocker Street in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Responding to a report of a deceased person…

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Damien Davis

Male, age 34 · West-palm-beach, Florida
Killed Jan 2, 2024 · 2 years ago

Damien Davis, a 34-year-old man, was fatally shot in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 2, 2024. The incident occurred in the front parking lot area of the Lake Mangonia Apartments, which is located along North Australian Avenue and is adjacent to Roosevelt…

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James Michael McClanhan

Male, age 50 · Livingston, Texas
Killed Jan 2, 2024 · 2 years ago

On January 2, 2024, at approximately 11:25 PM, the Polk County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported shooting at a residence in the Kickapoo Marina Subdivision near Livingston, Texas. Upon arrival, deputies identified the homeowners as 42-year-olds William…

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McKayla Roberts

Female, age 27 · Irondale, Alabama
Killed Jan 2, 2022 · 4 years ago

McKayla Roberts, 27, female, died on January 2, 2022, after a violent hit-and-run along Interstate 20 near Irondale, Alabama. Public reporting identified her as being from Charleston, South Carolina, and said she was on foot in the westbound travel lanes…

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Antonio Olmedo Mendoza

Male, age 62 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2022 · 4 years ago

Antonio Olmedo Mendoza, a 62-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on January 2, 2022, in Sun Valley, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Mendoza was shot near 8100 Vineland Ave. The incident occurred…

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Ismael Trujillo

Male, age 40 · Long Beach, California
Killed Jan 2, 2022 · 4 years ago

Ismael Trujillo was 40 years old when he died on Sunday, January 2, 2022, in Long Beach. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after being stabbed near Atlantic Avenue and East 6th Street. His death was ruled a homicide, and it…

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Fael Valente

Male, age 30 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2019 · 7 years ago

Fael Valente, a 30-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, tragically lost his life on January 2, 2019. According to reports, Fael was shot near the 1500 block of North Bonnie Beach Place in East Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Medical…

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Jamal Washington

Male, age 38 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed Jan 2, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the early evening hours of a Monday in January 2017, gunshots shattered the routine of a South Baltimore neighborhood. When police responded to the 3600 block of South Hanover Street at approximately 6:10 p.m., they discovered 38-year-old Jamal Washington…

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Troy Grant

Male, age 30 · Queens, New York
Killed Jan 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 2, 2015, the life of 30-year-old Troy Grant was tragically cut short in what would become the first homicide of the new year in Queens, New York. Grant, a male resident of Jamaica, was inside his apartment at the Pomonok…

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Canisha Davis

Female, age 27 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

Canisha Davis, a 27-year-old woman from Los Angeles, California, tragically lost her life on January 2, 2015. She was fatally shot, an incident that has left her family and friends in deep mourning. The circumstances surrounding her death have been a source…

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Joseph Phillips

Male, age 23 · Orlando, Florida
Killed Jan 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

Joseph L. Phillips, a 23-year-old resident of Orlando, Florida, tragically lost his life on January 2, 2015. The circumstances surrounding his death were initially unclear, prompting a thorough investigation by local law enforcement. Phillips was found…

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Jamal Dezmondre Sean Hardy

Male · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2015 · 11 years ago

Jamal Dezmondre Sean Hardy was born on November 1, 2014, and lived for just two months before his sudden death on January 2, 2015. As a newborn infant residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, he was completely dependent on his caregivers and the…

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Nathanial Adams

Male, age 29 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed Jan 2, 2014 · 12 years ago

On a cold January night in 2014, the new year had barely begun in Baltimore when violence claimed the life of 29-year-old Nathaniel Adams. He and another man, Daries Williams, who was 27, were discovered in the 2500 block of Druid Park Drive, their lives cut…

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Nathaniel Johnson

Male, age 55 · Swainsboro, Georgia
Killed Jan 2, 2013 · 13 years ago

Nathaniel Johnson, a Black male from Swainsboro, Georgia, was found shot to death outside his home at 325 Mable Avenue on the morning of January 2, 2013, in a killing that struck his family and community with sudden, brutal force. A contemporaneous local…

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Vladimir Garcia

Male, age 44 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2007 · 19 years ago

Vladimir Garcia was 44 years old when he died in the early morning of Tuesday, January 2, 2007, in the Vermont Vista area of South Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 9023 Baring Cross Ave. His…

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Miguel Angel Henriquez

Male, age 35 · Los-angeles, California
Killed Jan 2, 2005 · 21 years ago

Miguel Angel Henriquez, a 32-year-old Latino male, was tragically shot and killed on January 2, 2005, in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Henriquez's death was a result of gunshot wounds. The incident occurred…

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Mark Delancey

Male, age 16 · Alondra-park, California
Killed Jan 2, 2003 · 23 years ago

Mark Lazary Delancey, a 16-year-old resident of Alondra Park, California, tragically lost his life on January 2, 2003. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Mark was fatally shot in Alondra Park. The incident occurred on a Thursday, and the…

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Robert Morrison

Male, age 22 · Dumfries, Virginia
Killed Jan 2, 2002 · 24 years ago

On a cold January evening in 2002, in what police would later describe as a drug-related assassination, 22-year-old Robert Irvin Morrison was shot and killed in a Dumfries, Virginia, apartment. The fatal attack, which also claimed the life of his 22-year-old…

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Marlene Sue Newcomer

Female, age 26 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Killed Jan 2, 1980 · 46 years ago

Marlene Sue Newcomer, a 26-year-old woman from Connellsville, Pennsylvania, tragically lost her life on January 2, 1980. She had left a New Year's Eve party in Vandergrift and was driving home when she encountered two men, John Lesko and Michael Travaglia…

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Shirley Stewart

Female, age 17 · Madison, Wisconsin
Killed Jan 2, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the winter of 1980, a young life was abruptly and mysteriously cut short, leaving a void in the community of Madison, Wisconsin. Seventeen-year-old Shirley Stewart, a hardworking young woman, vanished without a trace on the cold evening of January 2nd.…

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Sam Carter

Male, age 44 · Rosewood, Florida
Killed Jan 2, 1923 · 103 years ago

Sam Carter, a 44-year-old blacksmith from Rosewood, Florida, met a tragic end on January 2, 1923, during the infamous Rosewood Massacre. This event was a racially motivated attack on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood by large groups of white…

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Everett Smith

Male, age 30 · Olla, Louisiana
Killed Jan 2, 1903 · 123 years ago

In the early morning hours of Friday, January 2, 1903, the town of Olla, Louisiana, was still reeling from a fire that had recently devastated half of the downtown area. Amidst the lingering excitement and chaos, Town Marshal Everett Smith, a 30-year-old…

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