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The Denver Coroner's Office has identified the man who was shot over the weekend on the 2400 block of South Federal, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). He was William Ortiz, 21. The release on view below describes the reason for his demise with chilling simplicity: "The manner of death is homicide."
Ivory Mefford, number eleven on the Denver Coroner's Office roster.The Denver Coroner's Office recently issued a list of all deaths ruled homicides in the city from the beginning of 2009 through July 4. The predictably grim chronicle of 23 individuals who lost their lives in acts of violence offers some useful (and often disturbing) data. Only two of the dead were females and just four are identified as white; eleven were Hispanics, seven were African-American, and one was Native American
