In the winter of 2018, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet of a Saturday morning in Bowie, Maryland, leaving a young man's life cut tragically short. Derrick Whittaker, a 27-year-old Black male from Capitol Heights, was fatally shot in the upper body on January 20th in the 1200 block of Pennypacker Lane. In the immediate aftermath, before Bowie police could arrive at the scene around 11:45 a.m., Whittaker was privately transported to a local hospital. Despite the swift medical attention, he s
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