Mouhamed Diop, a 33-year-old Black male, spent the evening of Wednesday, November 11, 2009, on the 1200 block of 44th Street NE in Washington, D.C., alongside 37-year-old Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye. It was a weeknight in late autumn, the kind of evening when the streets begin to quiet after work, and the neighborhood slipped into its routine rhythms. That quiet was shattered at about 8:47 p.m., when gunfire erupted on the block, turning an ordinary night into a scene of chaos and fear as two men colla
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