Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another.
At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people
even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.
Sylvester Holt, age 32
Fatally shot on January 20, 2017 in Marrero, Louisiana.
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News sources:
- NOLA.com: A shooting on a Marrero street, a chase and crash, then an officer's killing
- WWL: Suspect in shooting of police officer, pregnant woman dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound
- WWL: State Police: Suspect on CCC shot himself in chest
- WWL: Off-duty Westwego officer helping with car accident shot in Marrero; woman also hit
- Westwego officer, woman killed in Marrero shooting
- Gun Violence Archive
2 other people also died in this incident.
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