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Police search for killer of 6-year-old girl remembered for her energy and smile
The Washington Post ^
| 07/17/21
| Peter Hermann, Perry Stein, Karina Elwood
Posted on 07/18/2021 3:05:56 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided.
“We twins now,” the smiling 6-year-old told Andrea Courtney.
It was one of the last times the two talked.
Nyiah was fatally shot Friday night while walking to her nearby home with her mother, father and older sister in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington.
Police said the shots came from a gray, four-door sedan passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, striking Nyiah, her mother and four others, among the latest victims in a city struggling to curtail gun violence.
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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: blackkidsmatter; blm; children; crime; dc; malcomx; mlk
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To: a fool in paradise
It is the people’s choice. If they choose to live like animals, they can. If they want to live like civilized people they can. It is up to them.
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posted on
07/18/2021 10:11:35 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Salamander
The last time I got sick was from what I presume was a nasty Staph. aureus bug that lived at Taco Time. I got food there with a friend, and he got the packets of condiments and I got mine from the super-shiny display that probably got sanitized twice a day.
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posted on
07/18/2021 10:31:54 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: gundog
Maybe you got poisoned from the “disinfectants”.
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posted on
07/18/2021 10:34:58 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
To: Salamander
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posted on
07/18/2021 10:45:40 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: gundog
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posted on
07/18/2021 11:19:04 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
To: Tax-chick
Wow, that is so sad. I imagine the shooting was intended to get an adult in her family. Each generation will be worse than the one before.
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posted on
07/19/2021 6:18:28 AM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
To: JoJo354
Yes, unless there is some change in their values, things will get worse.
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posted on
07/19/2021 6:19:07 AM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
To: Pining_4_TX
I imagine the shooting was intended to get an adult in her family.Yes, I expect that's right.
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posted on
07/19/2021 6:23:09 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
To: Pining_4_TX
. . . passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues . . .
Holy Crap.
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posted on
07/19/2021 1:17:14 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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