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In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, January 6, 2019, the sound of gunfire echoed through a Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood, leaving a young man fatally wounded. Donald Rafus Benson, a 21-year-old male, was discovered by Metropolitan Police Department officers on the Unit Block of O Street, Northwest, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The location of the shooting was approximately three blocks from the Noma-Gallaudet University metro station.

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Victim Details

Donald Rafus Benson

Male

Washington

DC

2019-01-06

21

Donald

Rafus Benson

11/16/2025