In the early moments of September 10, 2019, just after midnight, the sound of gunshots broke the quiet in the 3000 block of 24th Place SE in Washington, D.C. Responding to the alert, Metropolitan Police Department officers canvassed the area and discovered a young man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was identified as 16-year-old Steffen Brathwaite, a ninth-grader at Ballou High School. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for his life-threatening injuries, but succumbed to them and was p
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