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In the spring of 1996, on the evening of Tuesday, April 16th, a burst of violence shattered the night in Washington, D.C., irrevocably altering the lives of a local family. Warren Smith Jr., a 59-year-old African-American man known affectionately as 'Big Warren,' found himself in the area of 7th Street and Florida Avenue, Northwest, as dusk settled over the city. At approximately 8:10 p.m., the sharp report of gunshots echoed through the neighborhood, a grimly familiar sound in the city during t ...Read More
In the spring of 1996, on the evening of Tuesday, April 16th, a burst of violence shattered the night in Washington, D.C., irrevocably altering the lives of a local family. Warren Smith Jr., a 59-year-old African-American man known affectionately as 'Big Warren,' found himself in the area of 7th Street and Florida Avenue, Northwest, as dusk settled over the city. At approximately 8:10 p.m., the sharp report of gunshots echoed through the neighborhood, a grimly familiar sound in the city during t ...Read More
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Warren Smith Jr
January 3, 2023
Male
African-American / Black
Washington
DC
1996-04-16
1996-04-16
59
Warren
Smith Jr
No
11/16/2025
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the location of Warren “Big Warren” Smith Jr.'s murder. For tho... ...Read More
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