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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Janet Brown

Year
1994
Where
Hampton, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On January 9, 1994, at approximately 0151 hours, several fights and shots rang out in the parking lot of the Hurricane Club on Pembroke Avenue. Officers in the parking lot were made aware of Janet Brown who was lying in the parking lot next to a vehicle located in front of the ABC store suffering from a gunshot wound. Janet Brown was later pronounced deceased at the hospital.

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

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