Douglas Jerome Wilson

Douglas Jerome Wilson Jr. lived in Long Beach and, by the time of his death on June 22, 2015, was 37 years old. Public records and contemporary accounts identify him as a local resident whose life was anchored in the neighborhood where he lived. While formal, family-published obituary text has not been located in public archives, official sources confirm the basic facts of his life that are part of the public record: Douglas was known to those around him as a neighbor and passerby in the 800 block of Chestnut Avenue, Long Beach.

Available records do not provide an extended public portrait of Douglas’s childhood, employment, or family relationships, and out of respect for his memory and surviving loved ones this account does not speculate about details that are not confirmed. What can be said with confidence is that his life mattered locally — he lived in a community where people interacted daily on sidewalks, in apartment courtyards, and in small neighborhood stores. That ordinary, human fabric is the truest context for remembering him: a man whose presence was part of a neighborhood’s everyday life.

Because there is little formal obituary material available through funeral-home notices or family-published remembrances in accessible public sources, this short remembrance honors Douglas by acknowledging the limits of the public record while recognizing him as a person, not only as a date in a file. Those who knew him best — family, friends, neighbors — hold the fuller memories not captured here. For anyone wishing to leave a tribute or to share a photograph or memory, community memorial pages and local support networks for families affected by violence sometimes collect and preserve those personal remembrances so they can be seen by loved ones.

Douglas’s passing was a loss to his Long Beach community. He is named and remembered in official records and court documents that reflect the events of June 22, 2015; beyond those records he was a human being whose life had meaning to people who lived near him. May those who loved him find peace and continue to honor his memory in the private ways families often do.