In the late morning of a summer day in Washington, D.C., a dispute over a pair of shoes escalated into a fatal encounter. On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 30-year-old Israel Mattocks, a shoe reseller, was shot and killed in the 3900 block of Minnesota Avenue, Northeast. The incident occurred at approximately 11:44 a.m. in the East River Park Shopping Center, just outside a Shoe City store.
Earlier that morning, Mattocks had asked another man, Darius Anderson, for assistance in purchasing shoe
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