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Antonio Ward

Case from Washington, DC dated Sep 12, 2009

Victim Details

Antonio Ward

March 28, 2022

Male

African-American / Black

Washington

DC

2009-09-12

2009-09-12

16

Antonio

Ward

07/07/2026


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In the late evening hours of Saturday, September 12, 2009, the life of a young Washington, D.C. teenager was tragically cut short. Antonio Benard Ward, a 16-year-old African-American male, was in the 5000 block of Just Street, NE, when gunfire shattered the night's calm at approximately 9:27 p.m. When officers from the Metropolitan Police Department arrived at the scene in response to the reports of gunshots, they discovered the young man suffering from fatal gunshot wounds. Despite the immediat ...
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