In the early hours of Memorial Day, May 30, 2022, Christian Gabriel Monje, a 29-year-old Hispanic male from Fairfax, Virginia, was sitting on the steps of the St. Matthew's Cathedral in downtown Washington, D.C. He had been in the city visiting a friend and was seemingly taking a moment to himself in what was considered a safe area. An aspiring chef whose dream of opening a food truck was paused by the pandemic, Christian was known to his friends and family as 'Chef Dembow,' a nod to his culinar
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