Artists who were killed over the years
Sam Cooke died after being shot by a woman in self-defense, at the age of 33, on December 11, 1964.
Country: United States
Genres: Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Singer-songwriter
Language: English
Died on October 7, 1962 (aged 59), after being shot during a mugging.
Country: United States
Genre: Blues
Language: English
Died on December 8, 1980, at age 40, after being shot by a fan, M. D. Chapman.
Country: United Kingdom
Genres: Pop, Rock, Singer-songwriter
Language: English
Died on April 1, 1984 (aged 44), after being shot by his own father.
Country: United States
Genre: Jazz
Languages: English, German
Died on September 11, 1987 (aged 42), after being tortured and killed by men who were attempting to rob him in his home.
Country: Jamaica
Genre: Reggae
Languages: English, English (Jamaican)
Died on October 6, 1991 (aged 34), after being shot during a concert in Saint Petersburg.
Country: Russia
Genres: Pop, Singer-songwriter
Language: Russian
Died on July 1, 2002 (aged 40), after being shot by two intruders, in his house from Tver.
Country: Russia
Genre: Singer-songwriter
Language: Russian
Mihaela Runceanu died on November 1, 1989 (aged 34), smothered with a pillow by a personal friend of hers, in her own studio flat from Bucharest.
Country: Romania
Genre: Pop
Language: Romanian
Died on March 9, 1997 (aged 24) after being shot in Los Angeles.
Country: United States
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Language: English
Died on September 13, 1996 (aged 25), after being shot four times, in Las Vegas.
Country: United States
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Language: English
He was shot dead by robbers, on October 18, 2007 (aged 43), at Johannesburg.
Country: South Africa
Genre: Reggae
Language: English
Cabral was shot and killed on July 9, 2011 (aged 74), during a tour in Guatemala.
Country: Argentina
Genres: Folk, Poetry
Language: Spanish
Died on March 31, 1995 (aged 23), after being shot by a woman.
Country: United States
Genres: Cumbia, Latino, Pop, R&B/Soul
Languages: Spanish, English
Shot and killed on November 25, 2006 (aged 27), after a concert.
Country: Mexico
Genre: Singer-songwriter
Language: Spanish
Died on June 18, 2018, (aged 20), after being shot on Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Country: United States
Genres: Hip-Hop/Rap, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock
Languages: English, Spanish, Korean
Tortured and killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, on September 16, 1973 (aged 40)
Country: Chile
Genres: Folk, Singer-songwriter
Language: Spanish
Died on June 10, 2016 (aged 22), after being shot by an obsessed fan.
Country: United States
Genres: Pop, R&B/Soul
Language: English
Died on June 20, 2018 (aged 40), after being shot in a nightclub.
Don Myrick, saxophonist, died on July 30, 1993 (aged 53), after being shot by a policeman.
Country: United States
Genres: Disco, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Psychedelic, R&B/Soul, Rock
Language: English
Guitarist Euronymous died on August 10, 1993 (aged 25), when he was stabbed by a former bandmate.
Country: Norway
Genre: Metal
Languages: English, Latin
Dimebag Darrell, guitarist, died on December 8, 2004 (aged 38), after being shot multiple times by a fan, during a concert.
On February 1, 2016, singer Jim Reeves was killed by two roommates in a hostel in Berlin. He was 47.
Country: Germany
Genres: Disco, Eurodance, Pop
Language: English
On January 19, 2017, Loalwa Braz (lead singer), was killed after a robbery who went wrong. She was 63.
Country: Brazil
Genre: Latino
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian
Died on June 25, 1998 (aged 42), when his car was fired upon by masked gunmen.
Country: Algeria
Genre: Folk
Languages: Kabyle, French
Died on March 31, 2019 (aged 33), after being shot in Los Angeles.
Country: United States
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Language: English
He was killed on April 17, 1941 (aged 43) in London by a Luftwaffe parachute mine.
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Jazz
Language: English
Mia Zapata (lead singer) died on July 7, 1993 (aged 27), when she was raped and strangled in Seattle.
Country: United States
Genre: Punk
Language: English
Rhett Forrester (lead singer) died on January 22, 1994 (aged 37), after being shot when he refused to give up his vehicle in an attempted carjacking.
Country: United States
Genre: Metal
Language: English
Sergio Gòmez (lead vocalist) died on Decembe 2, 2007 (aged 34) after he was abducted, tortured and strangled by gunmen.
Country: United States
Genre: Latino
Language: Spanish
The vocalist Cèzar Canales died on August 6, 2019 (aged 27), after being shot in the head, while the band was performing a concert.
Died on January 1, 2019, when he was shot in Rotterdam.
Guillermo "Willy" Oddò (lead singer) was assassinated on November 7, 1991(aged 48).
Country: Chile
Genre: Latino
Languages: Spanish, Italian
Died on June 26, 2010 (aged 40), after being shot on his way to perform at a village festival concert.
Country: United States
Genre: Latino
Language: Spanish
On November 29, 1993, Mihalea was murdered in his apartment from Bucharest, during a robbery. He was 41.
Country: Romania
Genre: Pop-Folk
Language: Romanian
Roger Troutman, the founder and leader of the band died on April 25, 1999 (aged 47), after being shot by his own brother, Larry, also a member of the band.
Country: United States
Genre: Funk
Language: English
She was murdered in her house, on April 27, 1986 (aged 36). It's not known who did it to this day.
Country: Italy
Genre: Pop
Language: Italian
He was killed out of jealousy, by French film director Yves Goulais, on October 10, 1991 (aged 42)
Country: Poland
Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul
Languages: English, Polish
Killed by shooting on July 11, 2020 (aged 30)
Killed by shooting on August 4, 2020 (aged 27)
He was murdered on September 18, 2013 (aged 34)
Country: Greece
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Language: Greek
Three members of the band (O'Toole, McCoy and Geraghty) were killed by two terrorists from Ulster Volunteer
Force, on 31 July 1975.
Proof was killed by shooting in Detroit, on April 11, 2006. He was 32.
Country: United States
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Languages: English, Spanish
The rapper was killed by shooting on January 24, 2003 (aged 29)
Killed by shooting on June 29, 2020 (aged 33)
Killed by shooting on February 19, 2020, during a robbery (aged 20).
Country: United States
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Language: English
He was murdered by shooting on November 3, 1988 (aged 51)
Country: Mexico
Genre: Latino
Language: Spanish
Singer Flor Loperena was killed by gunshot in 1988.
He was killed, at the age of 27, by a stray bullet during a gunfight in a Mexico City bar.
Country: Mexico
Genres: Folk, Opera, Singer-songwriter
Language: Spanish
Yturbe was murdered on November 28, 1987, by shooting (aged 51)
Country: Mexico
Genre: Latino
Language: Spanish
Miguel González López, the guitarist, died in 1983 (aged 26), when he tried to rob a jeweler's shop with a toy gun. He was shot by the owner of the shop.
Singer and guitarist Bryan Harvey, along with his wife and their two daughters, was murdered on January 1, 2006. He was 49.
Junior Jein was shot on June 14 2021 (aged 38).
Country: Colombia
Genres: Latino, Reggaeton
Language: Spanish
On October 2, 2014, Priscilla Coolidge was shot in the head by her husband. She was 73 years old.
Pasolini was assassinated on 2 November 1975, in circumstances not yet elucidated. He was 53.
Country: Italy
Genre: Poetry
Languages: Italian, Friulian
Zekra was shot by her husband on 28 November 2003. She was 37.
Country: Tunisia
Genre: Pop
Language: Arabic
Francisco Ernesto Ruiz Martinez, a singer, was shot on October 12 in 2017 (aged 32).
Country: Mexico
Genre: Folk
Language: Spanish
She was killed on April 2 2016 (aged 32), beaten to death.
He was killed by a pro-Russian sniper in Donbass, on June 29, 2016 (aged 41)
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Opera
Language: French
Frankie Little, guitarist of the band, was murdered on February 18, 1982 (aged 39).
Country: United States
Genres: Disco, R&B/Soul
Language: English
The band's keyboardist, Carter Albrecht was shot and killed by his girlfriend's neighbor. He was 34.
Original drummer Gary Driscoll was found murdered in Ithaca, New York on June 8, 1987 (aged 41).
Country: United Kingdom
Genres: Hard Rock, Metal, Rock
Language: English
On June 9, 2015, Howard was shot and killed at his home in Lynchburg, Tennessee. He was 65.
On July 06 2013, he was hit by two gunshots while performing. He died a few hours later. He was 20.
He was killed as a result of Russian shelling of the Kyiv suburb of Irpin on 6 March, 2022. He was 33.
She was shot during a home invasion robbery in 2015. She was 35.
Country: Venezuela
Genres: Joropo, Latino
Language: Spanish
Cordell Reagon, founder of The Freedom Singers, was murdered on November 12, 1996 (aged 53)
Country: United States
Language: English
He was murdered in his apartment on January 21 2014. (Aged 43).
Anthony Muzante, lead singer, died on January 21 2014 (aged 21) in a shooting that also killed his manager (the aim of the assault) and another person.
Edita Guerrero, founding member, died on March 1 2014 (aged 30). She was killed by her boyfriend.
Tabby Diamond (Donald Orlando Shaw), lead singer, was killed in a drive-by shooting on March 29 2022 (aged 67).
He was killed by unidentified shooters on May 29 2022. He was 28.
Country: India
Genre: R&B/Soul
Languages: Punjabi, Hindi, English
Guitarist Gord Lewis was found murdered in his home on August 7, 2022. His son Jonathan Lewis was arrested shortly after the crime and charged with second-degree murder.
Bassist and vocalist Felix Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife on April 17 1983. He was 43.
Country: United States
Genre: Hard Rock
Language: English
Two of the band's founding members, brothers Soroush "Looloosh" (aged 27) and Arash (aged 28) Farazmand, guitarist and drummer, respectively, were shot dead in Brooklyn, New York on November 11, 2013, along with an associate Ali Eskandarian (aged 35)
He was shot on November 11, 2013 (aged 35)
Murdered by shooting in June 11, 1992 (aged 38)
Country: Colombia
Genre: Latino
Language: Spanish
Lead singer Walter Scott was killed by his wife's lover on December 27, 1983 (aged 40)
Country: United States
Genres: Pop, R&B/Soul
Language: English
He was assassinated by hired killers when he refused to pay extortion money on 12 August 1997, aged 46.
He died during a fight with his fiancée, Lyudmyla Derbina, who strangled him on the night of 19 January 1971, when he was 35.
Country: Russia
Genre: Poetry
Language: Russian
She was killed by a group of armed men on September 14, 1929. She was 29.
Country: United States
Genres: Folk, Singer-songwriter
Language: English
On 10 February 2023, Forbes was shot dead outside a restaurant in Durban (South Africa). He was 35.
He died at age 49, on November 5, 1989, after being shot in the head in Guatemala City
Country: United States
Genre: Singer-songwriter
Language: English
He was shot and killed on May 16, 1992, by unidentified assailants. He was 31.
Country: Mexico
Genres: Folk, Latino, Singer-songwriter
Language: Spanish
On April 22, 1994 at the age of 55, Roberto Lutti was attacked and murdered by unknown thieves in a home invasion in the Lagunillas Municipality, Venezuela.
Country: Italy
Genre: Opera
Language: Spanish
She was killed in 2009 by her own brothers, for the "sin" of appearing on TV.
Country: Pakistan
Genre: Singer-songwriter
Language: Pashto
He was murdered for political reasons on November 10, 1996 (aged 38).
Country: Russia
Genres: Folk, Singer-songwriter
Languages: Russian, Chechen
Ghazala, along with her father, was shot dead by her ex-husband, on June 18, 2012. She was 24.
Country: Pakistan
Language: Pashto
He was murdered for political reasons on August 3, 1992 (aged 53).
Country: Iran
Genre: Pop
Languages: Persian, English
On 14 August 1989 she was shot and killed at the age of 30 by her husband (Halis Serbest), in Adana (Turkey).
Country: Turkey
Genres: Folk, Pop-Folk
Language: Turkish
Diego Gallardo was killed on 9 January 2024, at the age of 31.
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Died on June 18, 2018 (aged 20) after being shot on Deerfield Beach, Florida
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Shot and killed on June 10, 2016 (aged 22) by an obsessed fan who commited suicide later
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Tortured and killed by Chilean Militars on 16 September 1973 (aged 40)
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Don Myrick, saxophonist of Earth, Wind & Fire.
He was shot in Los Angeles, California by a Santa Monica policeman during a narcotics investigation. July 30, 1993 (aged 53)
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Killed after four gunmen opened fire at nightclub (aged 40).
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Singer Jim Reeves was tortured and killed by two roommates in a hostel in Berlin.
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Singer Loalwa Braz Vieira was killed and burned in her car after being robbed at the little hotel she owned.
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He was assassinated during the Algerian Civil War by masked gunmen when his car was stopped at a roadblock.
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Killed on 17 April 1941 (aged 43) during the London bombings
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lead singer Rhett Forrester
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lead singer Mia Zapata
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Andrzej Zaucha was shot by French film director, Yves Goulais, along with Goulais's ex-wife Zuzanna whom he suspected of having an affair with Zaucha
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Frontman Roger Troutman was shot by his brother and fellow band member who committed suicide afterwards.
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He was murdered on September 18, 2013 by a member of the Neo-Nazi criminal organisation Golden Dawn
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On 31 July 1975, five members of the band were travelling by minibus back to Dublin from a gig in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. At the townland of Buskhill, outside of Newry, they were stopped at a bogus military checkpoint by gunmen dressed in British Army uniform, who ordered them to get out and line up by the roadside. The gunmen were members of a loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Two gunmen hid a time bomb on the minibus, but it exploded prematurely and killed them. The remaining gunmen then opened fire on the band members, killing O'Toole, McCoy and Geraghty and wounding Lee and Travers.
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On April 11, 2006, Proof was shot by the cousin of a man he had shot over a dispute after a game of billiards.
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In 2003, Sabotage died after being shot four times in the head and chest. No arrest was made, and, despite the nature of the attack, no connection was established between his drug-peddling and his violent death.
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Hundessa was shot on the evening of 29 June 2020.
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At the height of his career Felipe Arriaga was killed under mysterious circumstances in Mexico City in 1988. He was shot.
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Miguel González López, the guitarist, died in 1983 aged 26 when he tried to rob a jeweller's shop with a toy gun. He was shot by the owner of the shop.
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Yturbe was murdered on November 28, 1987 in Atizapan de Zaragoza. He was shot after he opened the door to his house. The cause was never established and no one has ever been charged with his killing.
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He was killed, at the age of 27, by a stray bullet during a gunfight in a Mexico City bar.
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Singer Flor Loperena was killed by gunshot in 1988.
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On New Year's Day, 2006, singer and guitarist Bryan Harvey, his wife Kathryn, and their daughters Stella and Ruby were found brutally murdered in the basement of their Richmond home. The killers, who had killed several other people as well, were found and convicted.
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Junior Jein was shot on June 14 2021 (aged 38).
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On October 13, 2021, she was killed alongside four other people by a man who shot and stabbed random civilians in the streets of Kongsberg, Norway.
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Priscilla Coolidge was shot by her 4th husband Michael Seibert in 2014 in a murder-suicide. She was 73 years old.
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Pasolini was brutally assassinated on 2 November 1975 on the beach at Ostia. Initially a young male prostitute confessed and was convicted for the murder but he retracted his confession years later and said he had been forced to confess under threats of violence to his family. The murder remains unsolved.
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Zekra was shot by her husband, then he committed suicide in cairo 28 November 2003
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Francisco Ernesto Ruiz Martinez, a singer, was shot on October 12 in 2017 (aged 32) in what seems to have been a robbery.
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She was killed on April 2 2016 (aged 32), beaten to death. She was outdoors with her husband and her little daughter when she supposedly disappeared while she was jogging. Her body was found the next day.
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Killed by a sniper whlie fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, Ukraine.
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In 1982 the remains of an unidentified black male were found in Twinsburg, Ohio. He had been stabbed, beaten, dismembered and burned.
In December 2021 he was identified as the former guitarist Frankie Little of the band The O'Jays.
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In September 2007, the band's keyboardist, Carter Albrecht (who also played with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) was shot and killed by his girlfriend's neighbor.
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Bassist Efraín Ruales, who was also famous for being an actor in a popular TV series, was shot in his car in Guayaquil, Ecuador on January 27, 2021, at the age of 36.
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Original drummer Gary Driscoll was found murdered in Ithaca, New York on June 8, 1987 (aged 41). Details of his murder remain blurred and his murder unsolved.
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On June 9, 2015, Howard died in a shootout at his home in Lynchburg, Tennessee during an altercation with a bounty hunter who had attempted to serve Howard with a bench warrant for failing to appear at a recent court date in Marion County.
Howard fired a weapon at the bounty hunter, who also sustained injuries during the incident, and was subsequently shot and killed.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which was asked by a local district attorney to handle the case, the singer faced charges for his fourth DUI offense, driving on a revoked license, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.
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On May 16 2021, he was at a hotel room, where he fell to his death from the balcony. However, the circumstances of his death are still unclear: it's supposed he was actually trying to move from his to a lower apartment via the balcony, trying to hide from his wife - on whom he had just cheated.
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Pasha Lee was killed during the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
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She was shot during a home invasion robbery in 2015. She was 35. The killer was the 15-year old son of her maid. Her maid was also convicted in the crime for facilitating information to the delinquents.
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Cordell Reagon, founder of the Freedom Singers, was murdered on November 12, 1996 (aged 53). The crime remains unsolved.
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He was bound, stabbed and strangled in his apartment on January 21 2014. He was 43 years old.
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Anthony Muzante, lead singer, died on January 21 (aged 21) in a shooting that also killed his manager (the aim of the assault) and another person.
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Edita Guerrero, founding member, died on March 1 2014 (aged 30). First thought to have died from an aneurysma, the autopsy revealed the reason of death was blunt force, a total of 28 lesions to her body, 11 of them internal. Presumably the perpetrator was her then-boyfriend.
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Tabby Diamond (Donald Orlando Shaw), lead singer, was killed in a drive-by shooting on March 29 2022 (aged 67).
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Guitarist Gord Lewis was found murdered in his home on August 7, 2022. His son Jonathan Lewis was arrested shortly after the crime and charged with second-degree murder.
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Bassist and vocalist Felix Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife in 1983.
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Murdered by shooting in June 11, 1992 (aged 38)
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He was assassinated by hired killers when he refused to pay extortion money on 12 August 1997, aged 46.
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He died during a fight with his fiancée, apparently strangled by her with her hands.
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A union organizer, she was killed during a strike, shot by a group of armed men.
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Barry Sadler was shot while in a car in Guatemala City on September 7, 1988. He was brought back home to the US, where he slipped into a coma but woke up as a quadriplegic and later died from his injuries a year later on November 5, 1989.
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Found dead on May 16, 1992 with two bullets in the head
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On April 22, 1994 at the age of 55, Roberto Lutti was attacked and murdered by unknown thieves in a home invasion in the Lagunillas Municipality, Venezuela. His murder was never solved, and it remains so to this day.
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On November 18, 1978 more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple were killed in a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
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On the night of November 10, (according to other sources, November 8) 1996, three men in police uniforms burst into the discreet Odessa house where Alimsultanov and his artistic team were settled by local Chechens in order to protect them. After the intruders made sure that they were in the right place, they shot Alimsultanov and two colleagues at point-blank range. All three died, but one witness, who was in the bathroom at the time of the murder, survived. The case remains unresolved. Аn investigation by Chechen special services implicated the Russian FSB for the murder.
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On 7 February 2010, Ghazala married Jehangir Khan, a property dealer in Peshawar, but of late was living with her father due to differences with her husband. She learned that her husband had another wife before her, leading to her separation from him. In November 2010, she separated from her husband and moved to her parents' home. On 12 October 2011, Ghazala filed a petition in the civil court of Asghar in Swat for divorce from Jehangir. The court decided in her favor on 4 December 2011.
Ghazala, along with her father, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting by gunmen on a motorcycle, on June 18, 2012. On 16 December 2013 Swat District and Sessions Court found her former husband, Jehangir Khan guilty of killing her and her father and awarded him two death sentences along with 70 million Rs in fines. On 22 May 2014 the Peshawar High Court set aside the sentence on the basis of compromise between the heirs of the two victims and Jehangir Khan.
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Iranian agents belong to Ministry of Intelligence entered Fereydoon Farrokhzad's house in Bonn, Germany and shot him dead on August 3, 1992 (aged 54), but his body wasn't discovered by German authorities till August 8, Farrokhzad, brother of a great female poet, Forough, who was killed in a car accident back in 1962, was a well-known TV anchor and singer in the 1960s and 1970s, he fled his home country, Iran to rest in asylum in Germany, and from that asylum, spoke in a strong manner against the regime that came after 1979 revolution and It's leader Ruhollah Khomeini, and mocked one of Khomeini's books "Tahrir al-Wasilah" (Means of Salvation), and that mockery was the reason for his assassination
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Died June 7, 2012 (aged 19)
On June 7, 2012, Vernell was shot and killed outside Northside Hospital in Sandy Springs, Georgia, where he was awaiting his daughter's birth. Two suspects were spotted fleeing the scene, according to witnesses.Three men were convicted of the murder in August 2014. Related charges concerning a fourth defendant, Mani Chulpayev, were dropped.
Is there a list related to artists who killed other people?
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But it has not been updated in a while...
Thank you I guess that's why I couldn't find it ha ha
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Murdered by his husband on 14 August 1989 (aged 31)
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Diego Gallardo was killed on 9 January 2024, at the age of 31, during the 2024 Ecuadorian conflict, when he was hit by a stray bullet on Avenida del Bombero, in the Ceibos sector, of the city of Guayaquil, by criminals who were terrorizing the city, when he was looking for his son at his school to protect him at home due to the conflict
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Soulja Slim was shot and murdered by an unknown assailant in the front lawn of his mother's home on November 26, 2003.
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He was shot at age 19
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He was killed by the mafia of Budapest. He borrowed money to purchase cocaine, but did not repay it. He had a heart attack while walking with his manager, who rushed him to hospital. The mafia later came and strangled him with a pillow in 1992.
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Shot and killed on November 25, 2006 (aged 27), after a concert
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Guitarist Euronymous was stabbed to death on 10 August 1993 (aged 25)
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Guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot during a show on December 8, 2004 (aged 38)