Homicides

A year ago this month, Tom Marmet was shot and killed while driving across DC in rush-hour traffic. He was heading home from his job as a social worker for local nonprofit So Others Might Eat. Tom hoped to dedicate his life to serving the…

On July 19, Ahkii Washington-Scruggs, a 17-year-old high school football player about to enter his senior year at Dunbar High School, was found shot and killed alongside his father in their apartment in Northeast DC. Their deaths were two…

So many places to die in dc in a car on the bus on the corner with a mother only a whisper away… Those are words from a poem titled “Dying” that I wrote in the 1980s. I pulled it out this week after learning of the murder…

Immediately following the mass shooting in Virginia Beach on May 31, the eyes of the whole country fell on Southeast Virginia to mourn yet another tragedy. Twelve people were murdered on a beautiful sunny day in an all-too-common act of…

When the architects of a nationwide anti-gun violence campaign deliver some 720,000 postcards to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning urging universal background checks for gun buyers, it will mark the culmination of a monthslong effort that…