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Zaire Kelly

Case from Washington, DC dated Sep 20, 2017

Victim Details

Zaire Kelly

Male

Black / African American

Washington

DC

2017-09-20

16

Zaire

Kelly

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On a Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., 16-year-old Zaire Kelly, a male, was walking home, just steps from his front door. A high school senior at Thurgood Marshall Academy, he was a promising student and a talented track athlete who had recently been honored with the Attorney General's Right Direction Award. He was returning from a college preparatory class, his future bright with plans to attend Florida A&M University.

In a small park in his Northeast D.C. neighborhood, he was confr ...
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  • WTTG: DC teen killed defending himself during robbery fatally stabs attacker, police say
  • Updated: Homicide: 2200 Block of 13th Street, Northeast | mpdc
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