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Do you know who murdered Dwaine Edward Bethea?
In the early hours of March 9, 2005, the quiet around 13th and V Streets SE in Washington, D.C., was broken by the sound of gunfire. When officers arrived just after 1:45 a.m., they found 37-year-old Dwaine Edward Bethea, an African-American / Black man known by the nickname “Woo,” lying in the street, fatally wounded. He had been shot multiple times, and despite the rapid response, there was nothing first responders could do; he was pronounced dead at the scene, his life ending where the bu ...Read More
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Victim Details

Dwaine Edward Bethea

January 9, 2023

Male

African-American / Black

Washington

DC

2005-03-09

2005-03-09

37

Dwaine Edward

Bethea

11/15/2025


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