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            "name": "Sadio Camara Malian military officer, shot dead at age 47",
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            "name": "Carolina Flores Gómez Mexican beauty queen, shot dead at age 27",
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            "name": "Carl Grillmair Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, shot dead at age 67",
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            "name": "Killing of Renée Good American poet and writer, shot dead at age 37",
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            "name": "2025–2026 Iranian protests Iranian protester, shot dead at age 18",
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            "age": 18,
            "death_date": "2026-01-05",
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            "description": "The 2025–2026 Iranian protests, an Iranian protester, was shot and died on January 5, 2026. The protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on December 28, 2025, amid a deepening economic crisis. They followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement. The unrest spread to more than 200 cities and became the largest uprising in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.",
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        {
            "name": "Killing of Latif Karimi Iranian protester, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier general, shot dies",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/killing-of-latif-karimi",
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            "sources": [],
            "death_date": "2026-01-03",
            "reported_date": "2026-01-03",
            "published_at": "2026-01-03T12:00:00+01:00",
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            ],
            "description": "Latif Karimi, a retired colonel of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian protester, was killed on January 3, 2026, after being shot in Malekshahi County, Ilam Province. According to the provided account, he died when live ammunition fired by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran struck him during the 2025–2026 Iranian protests. Karimi was an Iranian citizen and Kurdish resident of Malekshahi County. His son said on social media that he was killed directly by government forces.",
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                "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-shot"
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            "name": "Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe American dentist, shot dead at age 37",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/killing-of-monique-and-spencer-tepe",
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            "age": 37,
            "death_date": "2025-12-30",
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            "name": "Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe American early childhood educator, shot dead at age 39",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 39,
            "death_date": "2025-12-30",
            "reported_date": "2025-12-30",
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            "name": "Marius van der Merwe Whistleblower testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as “Witness D” dead at age 40",
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            "age": 40,
            "death_date": "2025-12-05",
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            "description": "Marius van der Merwe, a South African private security company owner and former Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department official, died on December 5, 2025, after being shot. Also known as \"Vlam\" and by the codename \"Witness D\" during his testimony at the Madlanga Commission, he was a key whistleblower who gave evidence to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference, and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System. He was 40 or 41.",
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            "death_date": "2022-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2022-04-02",
            "published_at": "2022-04-02T14:20:02+01:00",
            "nationality": [
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            "description": "Ukrainian photojournalist (LB.ua",
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