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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Russell Grant Valentine

Year
2007
Where
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

During the late night hours of Monday, April 2, 2007, gunfire erupted in the 6000 block of Wesleyan Drive. Responding police units found the body of a black male lying in the yard of a residence suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics transported the victim to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital where he died a short time later. ?

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

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