District Neighbors Lost to Violence Aug 1 – 7

The District of Columbia lost the following individuals to violence in recent days:

• August 3 — 1500 block of North Capitol Street, NE (shooting)
  46-year-old Wendell Youngblood, of Baltimore, MD
• August 5 — 5000 Block of Bass Place, SE (stabbing)
  29-year-old Pierre Fenner, of Southeast

We are still in the 30-day mourning period for the following individuals lost to violence in the District:

• July 4 — 4200 block of 7th Street, SE (shooting)
  23-year-old Keonte Haynesworth, of Upper Marlboro, MD.
• July 6 — 400 block of Burns Street, SE (shooting)
  25-year-old Demarco Jones, of Waldorf, MD.
• July 8 — 3900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SW (shooting)
  22-year-old Anfernee Vernon Walker, of Southeast
• July 9 — 900 block Division Avenue, NE (shooting)
  32-year-old Dominic Robinson, of Northeast
• July 10 — 2100 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE (shooting)
  22-year-old Andre Broadie, of Northeast
• July 11 — 1100 block of North Capitol Street, NW (shooting)
  33-year-old Clifton Telfaire, of Northwest
• July 15 — 1300 block of Euclid Street, NW (stabbing)
  59 year-old Ronald Jones, of Northwest
• July 17 — 3800 block of 2nd Street, SE (shooting)
  28 year-old Mondell Valentine, of Takoma Park, MD
• July 18 — 2700 block of Naylor Road, SE (shooting)
  11-year-old Karon Brown, of Southeast
• July 19 — 1100 block of Queen Street, NE (double shooting)
  17-year-old Ahkii Washington-Scruggs of Northeast
• July 19 — 1100 block of Queen Street, NE (double shooting)
  57-year-old Hugh Washington of Northeast, DC.
• July 20 — 1100 block of U Street, NW (shooting)
  34-year-old Eric Byrd of Southeast
• July 20 — 3000 block of 30th Street, SE (shooting)
  23-year-old Delwaun Lyons, of Southeast
• July 21 — 1300 Block of Congress Street, SE (shooting)
  27-year-old Jamal Bandy, of no fixed address.
• July 21 — 2600 Block of Sherman Avenue, NW (7/20 shooting)
  30-year-old John Fenner Thomas, of Northeast
• July 22 — 1300 Block of Saratoga Avenue, NE (shooting)
  32-year-old Curtis Lowell Franklin, of Northeast
• July 23 — 3900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SW (7/8 shooting)
  20-year-old Timothy Richardson, of Northeast
  this is the second, recently succumbing victim of a double-shooting
• July 26 — 300 block of 50th Street, NE (shooting)
  37-year-old Francis Lee Savoy, of Southeast
• July 28 — 3100 block of Randle Place, SE (assault)
  33-year-old Lucas Alonzo Thomas, of no fixed address.
• July 30 — 1300 block of Savannah Street, SE (shooting)
  26-year-old Anthony Hooks, of Southeast

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Data are taken from DC’s Metropolitan Police Department notices. (See “About” for a little more.)

For thoughts on responding from a faith perspective, please visit Song Every Day.