Jessica Cole, a 41-year-old Black woman from Washington, D.C., was known in her Park View neighborhood by the nickname “Bird,” a charismatic, funny presence who had grown up in the city, married her high school sweetheart James Cole, and helped run a small cleaning business even as drug addiction gradually pulled her into more dangerous corners of street life. Neighbors remembered her as a sharp-tongued cut-up who could make anyone laugh, a woman who doted on her children and knew nearly eve
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