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On a late Saturday afternoon, just a day before she would have celebrated her 37th birthday, Janice Short's life was tragically cut short by gunfire in Washington, D.C. The stay-at-home mother of three was visiting her own mother on September 18, 2004, in the 300 block of Seaton Street NE to plan her birthday dinner. At approximately 4:40 p.m., while chatting with two men she knew from the neighborhood in front of a vacant apartment building, shots rang out.
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On a late Saturday afternoon, just a day before she would have celebrated her 37th birthday, Janice Short's life was tragically cut short by gunfire in Washington, D.C. The stay-at-home mother of three was visiting her own mother on September 18, 2004, in the 300 block of Seaton Street NE to plan her birthday dinner. At approximately 4:40 p.m., while chatting with two men she knew from the neighborhood in front of a vacant apartment building, shots rang out.
Janice, a woman described by f ...Read More
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Janice Short
January 9, 2023
Female
African-American / Black
Washington
DC
2004-09-18
2004-09-18
36
Janice
Short
11/16/2025
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I’ve been following Janice Short’s case for a while, and I just can’t get over the lack of pro... ...Read More
04/02/2023
04/02/2023
