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Izell Parrott | Age 61 | February 2005 | Glen Falls, NY
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Damien Johnson | Age 24 | September 2005 | Temple Terrace, FL
Friends and family point to the missing wallet. They say Johnson was obsessive about taking it everywhere he went. They also describe him as a bit lazy, particularly about walking places, which makes it hard for them to understand how he ended up dead five miles from his home.
If someone killed him, that raises the question: Why would they take his wallet but leave $150 in his pockets? Johnson’s friends say perhaps the wallet became a trophy of sorts.
Eddie Adams Jr., Temple Terrace’s first black City Council candidate and the person spearheading efforts to reopen the investigation, said other factors should have raised doubts. For instance, Adams said, could Johnson really have shimmied up the tree and then the branch in the dark, balancing himself while tying two knots?
“The reason I got involved in this thing is I have a gut feeling,” Eddie Adams Jr. said. “And I have more questions now than I did before.”
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Tanaka Moore | Age 29 | July 2006 | South Baldwin County, AL
The NAACP has called for a further probe into the hanging death of a 29-year-old black man that initially was ruled a suicide. The body of Tanaka Latra Moore was found hanged from a bedsheet outside an apartment he shared with a roommate in the south Baldwin County community of Marlow. Preliminary autopsy results determined Moore’s death to be a suicide, Coroner Huey Mack Sr. said.
“That doesn’t mean if we received other evidence or if the autopsy shows something different that we won’t look in other directions,” Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb said. Tuesday.
Melvin E. Whitehurst, the county chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said suspicions about the death arose because Moore “had no reason to take his life” and left no suicide note.
Newcomb said the lack of a suicide note was not unusual.
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Gregory Johnson | Age 20 | November 2008 | San Jose, CA
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Frederick Jermaine Carter | Age 26 | December 2010 | Greenwood, MS
