Omar Sykes Storify: “It’s a Cruel World”

This week marked the second consecutive year that D.C. has experienced an Independence Day killing.

Omar Sykes, a 22-year-old Howard University student, was shot in the 700 block of Fairmont Street Northwest around 11:30 p.m. July 4; he later died at the hospital. Police believe his death was the result of an attempted robbery.

After the jump is a collection of Tweets and Facebook posts that have been published in memory of Sykes.

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