The District of Columbia lost the following individuals to violence in recent days:
- October 24 — 1200 block of 17th Street, NE (shooting)
22-year-old Roger Marmet, of Northeast - October 27 — 4400 block of Douglas Street, NE (shooting)
19-year-old Trayvon Wood, of Southeast - October 30 — 4800 block of Alabama Avenue, SE (Shooting)
25-year-old Taquan Smith, of Southeast - October 30 — 5000 block of Fitch Place, NE (shooting)
26-year-old Terrance Johnson, of Southeast
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We are still in the 30-day mourning period for the following individuals lost to violence in the District:
- September 24 — 2300 block of 14th Street, NE (shooting)
47-year-old Ervin Aull, of no fixed address. - September 24 — 2500 block of Bowen Road, SE (shooting)
23-year-old Damon Dickens, of Woodbridge, VA. - September 24 — 1800 block of Benning Road, NE (shooting)
25-year-old Marquiawn Williams, of Northeast - September 25 — 6200 block of Eastern Avenue, NE (shooting)
24-year-old Anthony Daniel Lawson, of Southeast - September 29 — 1600 block of U Street, SE (shooting)
28-year-old Henry Isaacs of Southeast - September 30 — 1500 block of Benning Road, NE (shooting)
27-year-old Wilbert Brooks, of Northeast - October 5 — 300 block of 15th Street, NE (shooting)
32-year-old Walter Leon Baylor, of Northeast - October 6 — 2000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE (shooting)
26-year-old Marquis Jones, of no fixed address. - October 6 — 4600 block of Benning Road, SE (shooting)
21-year-old Avery Anderson, of Southeast - October 7 — 1300 block of Good Hope Road, SE (stabbing)
30-year-old Jean-Claude Jackson, of no fixed address. - October 9 — 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue, NE (stabbing)
53-year-old Curtis Barnum, of Southeast - October 9 — 1600 block of Montana Avenue, NE (shooting)
26-year-old Robert Merritt, of Northeast - October 11 — 3200 block of 12th Street, SE (shooting)
27-year-old Roderick Thomas, of Southeast - October 15 — 5300 block of D Street, SE (shooting)
28-year-old Ferdinand Fotachwi, of Lanham - October 16 — 1300 block of D Street, NE (shooting)
59-year-old Ezequiel Fernando Jimenez Pinto, of Northeast - October 16 — 1100 block of 51st Street, NE (shooting)
40-year-old Rubelio Gomez Cervantes, of Riverdale, MD. - October 20 — 3500 block of Wheeler Road, SE (shooting)
19-year-old Malik McCloud, of Southeast - October 20 — 900 block of 5th Street, SE (shooting)
19-year-old Antonio Dixon, of Southeast - October 21 — unit block of New York Avenue, NW (shooting)
28-year-old Marc Anthony Bolden, of Northwest
On March 5, two 1985 deaths in the Unit Block of Quincy Place, NW, were re-classified from accidental to homicide:
- 42-year-old Bessie Mae Duncan
- 40-year old Roy Picott, both of Northwest
In addition:
- Three skeletal remains, all declared homicides, found on 100 block of Wayne, SE, are yet to be identified
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Data are taken from DC’s Metropolitan Police Department notices. (See “About” for a little more.)
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