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D'Lisa Kelley
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Dallas
State: Texas
County: Dallas County
Date of birth: July 24, 1989
Date of death: March 14, 2014
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: African American/Black
Cause of death: Blunt Force
Anniversary month: March
LEA: Dallas Police Department, Dallas, Texas
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July 3, 2016 D’Lisa Michelle Kelley, 24, walked out of her grandmother’s home in Dallas, Texas, on March 7, 2014, around 4:30 pm to attend a friend’s wake. A little after 6:00 pm, D’Lisa’s sister received an inadvertent phone call indicating D’Lisa was in trouble. D’Lisa could be heard screaming, “Stop! Stop! Get off me!” A man was also heard saying, “Shut up! Stop screaming! You want to be hardheaded!” The body of D’Lisa Kelley was found in an abandoned house on Presidio Ave in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas on March 14, 2014. She had been beaten and strangled. D’Lisa was the mother of a young son and 8 weeks pregnant with her second child at the time of her murder. Her family continues to seek justice and answers in her death and has pushed to create a “Kelley Alert”, similar to the Amber Alert for children and the Silver Alert for seniors, that would be used to help find adults who are known to be in imminent... Read More
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