On the night of Saturday, April 26, 1997, a senseless argument over a blocked roadway would tragically escalate, claiming the life of an off-duty Washington, D.C. police officer. Thirty-one-year-old Robert L. Johnson, Jr., a seven-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department assigned to the Sixth District, was with a friend and fellow officer, Sergeant Paul Shelton, near the 4300 block of Benning Road NE, not far from their own police station. The two officers, in separate cars, had briefl
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