On a summer afternoon in Washington, D.C., a life was tragically cut short, leaving a family and community to grapple with a sudden and violent loss. Mitchell Smith, a 50-year-old Black male, was in the 700 block of 16th Street, NE, on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, when the ordinary day was shattered by gunfire. At approximately 4:23 p.m., Mr. Smith was shot, and the incident would soon become a homicide investigation.
Emergency services were dispatched to the scene, but Mr. Smith's injuries
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