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Deaths by Force on July 2

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

Deaths by Force (532)

Death by Force

Wilbur Brookens

Male, age 54 · Fayetteville, Pennsylvania
Killed Jul 2, 1977 · 49 years ago

On a summer evening in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, the tranquility was shattered by the crackle of flames and the sharp report of rifle fire. It was July 2, 1977, when 54-year-old Wilbur Ernest Brookens, a local resident, was drawn to a fire that had been…

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Death by Force

James Kent

Male, age 34 · Chico, Colorado
Killed Jul 2, 1909 · 117 years ago

James I. Kent, 34, male, was a deputy with the Union County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico when he was shot and killed on July 2, 1909, near Chico, Colorado. He and two fellow officers had tracked suspected horse thieves across the state line to a house just…

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Death by Force

Fred Cutler

Male, age 54 · Lake-placid, New York
Killed Jul 2, 1907 · 119 years ago

In the summer of 1907, the tranquil community of Lake Placid, New York, was disturbed by an act of violence that would claim the life of one of its own. Patrolman Fred M. Cutler, a 54-year-old male officer with the Lake Placid Police Department, was fatally…

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Death by Force

Archibald Mcneill

Male, age 25 · San-diego, Texas
Killed Jul 2, 1900 · 126 years ago

On July 2, 1900, Deputy Sheriff Archibald McNeill, aged 25, was shot and killed while attempting to disarm a man inside a saloon in San Diego, Texas. Deputy McNeill, who served with the Duval County Sheriff's Office, was trying to arrest the man when he was…

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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.