Two men were killed in separate shootings in the District.
A dozen people have been killed in the District in the first 13 days of May, bringing the city’s homicide count this year to 70, a 6 percent rise over this time last year. Homicides in D.C. are now rising for the fifth consecutive year; in 2021, killingsD.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has pledged to bolster the size of the police force — theduring the current mayoral election cycle — and direct resources to people identified as the most at-risk to commit or be victimized by violence.
The council members running against Bowser say the mayor has not backed up her rationale for wanting to expand the police force by hundreds of officers. Her challengers are instead pushing for more alternative justice programs and less reliance on law enforcement. On Thursday, police said they charged Raymond Khalil Jones, 27, of Temple Hills, Md., with two counts of first-degree murder while armed in connection with a double killing in the District.In that case, police said Antoine Jenkins, 22, of Capitol Heights, Md., and Antwan Brown, 62, of Southeast Washington, were shot the afternoon of March 14 in the 700 block of 13th Street SE.
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