In the autumn of 2023, Carlos Javier Blanco Fernandez, a 38-year-old Venezuelan man, was navigating a new chapter of his life in Washington, D.C. Having arrived in the city by bus from Texas just a couple of months prior in September, he was among a group of refugees seeking a fresh start. The area around the 2200 block of New York Avenue in the Northeast quadrant of the city, with its nearby shelters, had become a familiar gathering spot for him and other newcomers.
On the evening of Nov
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