In the midst of a summer afternoon in Washington, D.C., on August 14, 2017, a burst of gunfire shattered the midday calm. Thirty-one-year-old Donta McNeil was shot and killed while sitting in a green Mercedes-Benz. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, a busy thoroughfare in the Anacostia neighborhood.
The brazen daylight shooting took place just steps from a D.C. government housing office. The fatal shooting was one of four that o
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