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.

Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty a.k.a William H. Bonney, age 21

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Fatally shot on July 14, 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

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