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Gabriel Carlos Turner

Death by Force
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On a Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., Gabriel Carlos Turner, a 46-year-old male, had just finished a pleasant breakfast with his mother. It was March 24, 2016, and shortly before noon, he left her home in Southeast Washington to head to his job as a custodian for the FBI, a position he had held for 15 years. As he walked through a courtyard on the 2600 block of Birney Place SE, his path fatefully crossed with a street confrontation that was escalating into violence. He was an unintended tar ...Read More
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  • Washington Post: District man sentenced to 37 years in fatal shooting of innocent bystander
  • NBC4 Washington: FBI Janitor Shot, Killed in Southeast DC on Way to Work
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    Victim Details

    Gabriel Carlos Turner

    Male

    Black / African American

    Washington

    DC

    2016-03-24

    46

    Gabriel

    Carlos Turner

    11/15/2025

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