Amid a post-pandemic crime surge, the death toll in the District echoes a long-ago era of rampant murder.
, fatally shot Sept. 2 in a bedroom of their apartment in the 4200 block of Fourth Street SE.
the same age with a 7½-inch folding knife outside a McDonald’s near 14th and U streets NW, in one of the District’s busiest nightlife corridors.Many U.S. cities experienced homicide surges during the pandemic, which criminal justice experts attributed partly to disruptions that slowed court systems, forced jails to drastically reduce inmate populations and ruptured social safety nets. But the pace of killings in those cities has since generally lessened.
adults and some juveniles charged with violent offenses. Parts of that bill were watered-down versions of even stronger proposals by “What we’re seeing in charging decisions is a function of the laws we are operating under and how the system is currently functioning,” Graves said in a statement. He said the prosecution rate from the last four monthsbecause of improvements in evidence testing in the District and better training and communication with D.C.
” Although the bloodshed of that era has not returned — and generations of newer Washingtonians have no memory of it — there are echoes of the long-ago carnage in the most recent numbers and the tragedies behind them.teacher visiting for a conference was fatally shot
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