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Taejuan King

Case from Washington, DC dated Apr 09, 2020

Victim Details

Taejuan King

Male

Black / African American

Washington

DC

2020-04-09

19

Taejuan

King

07/17/2026

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On an April afternoon, the sounds of gunfire echoed through a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., leaving a young man's life cut short. In the waning daylight of Thursday, April 9, 2020, at approximately 5:11 p.m., officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's Sixth District were called to the 1200 block of 44th Place, Southeast, for a report of a shooting. There, they found a man unconscious, having sustained a gunshot wound.

The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital by D.C ...
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  • Homicide: 1200 Block of 44th Place, Southeast | mpdc
  • Washington Post: Maryland man fatally shot in Southeast Washington
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