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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Lynn Taylor

Year
2012
Where
Richmond, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On December 30, 2012 at approximately 3:16 a.m., Richmond officers received a call for a person shot in the 400 block of east 34th Street. When officers arrived on scene, they found Lynn Taylor dead inside a vehicle.

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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