In the heart of Congress Heights, on a Saturday afternoon, the familiar chime of the Holiday Market's glass doors was tragically silenced by the sound of gunfire. It was shortly before 2 p.m. on October 20, 2018, when 19-year-old Malik McCloud was shot in the 3500 block of Wheeler Road SE. The initial hail of bullets, fired from a dark Audi SUV, struck McCloud, causing him to fall to the ground, paralyzed by a bullet to his spine. As a few people started to gather around him, a second volley of
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