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Donta McNeil

Case from Washington, DC dated Aug 14, 2017

Victim Details

Donta McNeil

Male

Black / African American

Washington

DC

2017-08-14

Yes

$25,000

31

Donta

McNeil

07/08/2026

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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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  • Washington Post: Two men fatally shot, two wounded in separate shootings in District on Monday
  • WJLA: Man shot multiple times, killed while sitting in Mercedes in reported drive-by in SE DC
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