New answers tagged passive-voice
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殺され is passive. As has been so kindly pointed out in the comments, the sentence reads, "I came to be killed by you".
For a moment though, let's look at a slightly simpler sentence:
私は、おまえに、殺された
This sentence reads "I was killed by you".
In a passive sentence, the agent, the one who's actually doing something, is marked by に。
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