Drug War Victim of the Day

Name: Unknown

Age: 40

killed in Prince Georges County, Maryland on August 15, 2022

Southeast Washington DC remains a no-go zone, even for UPS drivers, as this latest shooting incident points out, which is 1 in 6 shootings that have taken place in the last week, two of them fatal. If this were happening in Hollywood, California, it would be a scandal. But movie stars are people, and victims of the drug war, especially when poor and black, are what Noam Chomsky calls 'unpeople.'

Source: WTOP news

Name: Unknown

Age: Unknown

killed in Kansas City, Missouri on July 3, 2022

A woman was found shot dead in a vehicle parked outside a residence at 11300 block of Spring Valley Road. Kansas City appears to be "on pace" to meet or beat its 2021 record of 244 homicides.

Source: KSHB

Name: Azsia Johnson

Age: 20

killed in New York, New York on July 1, 2022

A 20-year-old mother of a 3-month-old was shot in the head in the Upper East Side with the help of weapons that drug war prohibition brought to the Big Apple.

Source: ABC News

Name: Unknown

Age: 14

killed in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 2022

This unnamed 14-year-old boy was killed in a gunfire incident which also wounded a 12-year-old boy. The 14-year-old was one of two killed on Friday in Chicago, when 25 were shot in various incidents, including one policeman.

Source: Chicago Sun Times

Name: Dechale N. Hampton

Age: 15

killed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 29, 2022

15-year-old Dechale was shot and killed in the dangerous-sounding 9000 block of North 95th Street. He was the 14th juvenile killed this year in Milwaukee and the 109th homicide so far this year. The Gannett-owned Milwaukee Journal covered the story as little as they possibly could. Instead of telling the kid's life story, they soon move on to to covering important stuff like a Sporkies Competition at the Wisconsin State Fair.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel