In the summer of 2021, a young life was abruptly cut short on a Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C. Twenty-year-old Kenneth OKeith Cherry Jr., a Black male, was in the 3800 block of Halley Terrace, SE, on June 29th when he was fatally shot. The incident occurred at approximately 1:37 p.m., a time of day when the neighborhood would have been going about its usual business, now tragically interrupted by an act of gun violence.
The Metropolitan Police Department quickly descended upon the
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