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On a December night in 1989, James McCallum, a 36-year-old construction foreman and father of two, lost his life in a brutal stabbing in Northeast Washington, D.C. A resident of the 1300 block of Holbrook Street NE, McCallum had moved to the city from North Carolina as a teenager. Known as a hardworking man by his family, he was also battling a drug habit that would ultimately place him in harm's way on that fateful evening.
On the night of December 14th, McCallum and a friend drove to th ...Read More
On a December night in 1989, James McCallum, a 36-year-old construction foreman and father of two, lost his life in a brutal stabbing in Northeast Washington, D.C. A resident of the 1300 block of Holbrook Street NE, McCallum had moved to the city from North Carolina as a teenager. Known as a hardworking man by his family, he was also battling a drug habit that would ultimately place him in harm's way on that fateful evening.
On the night of December 14th, McCallum and a friend drove to th ...Read More
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James McCallum
January 2, 2023
Male
African-American / Black
Washington
DC
1989-12-14
1989-12-14
James
McCallum
No
11/16/2025
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