Saul Antonio Cortez, a 40-year-old man, died on December 21, 2007, in a moment that arrived like a door slammed shut without warning. He was from Beltsville, Maryland, and by that winter evening his name became tied to a simple, terrible fact: he was shot, and the wound took his life.
The night unfolded in Prince George’s County near the Washington, D.C. line, on the 3900 block of 53rd Place. A call for help brought officers to the scene around 7:28 p.m., but the urgency of sirens and r
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