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James Anthony Smith

Case from Washington, DC dated Dec 18, 2017

Victim Details

James Anthony Smith

Male

Black / African American

Washington

DC

2017-12-18

17

James

Anthony Smith

07/07/2026

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In the winter of 2017, a young man's life was tragically cut short over a pair of sneakers. Seventeen-year-old James Anthony Smith, a student at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., had just received an early Christmas present from his mother: a pair of Nike Air Jordan sneakers. He had only enjoyed them for four days before he was attacked. On the evening of December 18, on a basketball court at the Frederick Douglass Community Center in Southeast Washington, a confrontation over the shoes tu ...
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  • Homicide: 1900 Block of Frederick Douglass Court, Southeast | mpdc
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