Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez, a 35-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was spending the quiet stretch between Christmas and the new year in Washington, DC, when violence cut his life short. On December 26, 2007, in Northeast Washington, the sound of gunfire shattered the calm and drew police to the area. Responding officers followed those reports to a scene where Alvarez lay suffering from gunshot wounds, the street around him suddenly transformed from an ordinary winter night into the center of a homicide investigat ...