Melvin Gooden  Unsolved homicide

• Case number: 1279
• Incident location: 900 Cuyahoga Street
  Akron, Ohio - Summit County
• Incident date: 9/23/1977
• Homicide date: 9/23/1977
• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Law enforcement agency: Akron Police Department

Details

Eighteen year old Melvin Gooden was found by construction workers in the Cuyahoga River near the above address. Gooden died of an apparent gunshot wound.

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