WaPo’s Avis Thomas-Lester today looks at the intersection at 13th Place and Congress Street SE, an intersection where 17 people have been killed in violent crime in the past decade. Writes Thomas-Lester: The two Southeast Washington women met in the 1970s as activists in their Anacostia neighborhoods. Their friendship grew as they pushed for better … Read more →
It’s been three weeks since 16-year-old Raheem Jackson was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. and two weeks since his funeral. On Thursday his classmates remembered him with poetry. It was apparent at the poetry slam in H.D. Woodson Senior High School’s library that Jackson was many things to his classmates: a leader, a scholar, … Read more →
An 18-year-old recently kicked out of an alternative school is a “person of interest” in Raheem Jackson’s killing, the Washington Examiner reports. MPD Capt. Michael Farish told the Examiner that “it is too soon to label” the teen a suspect. No arrests have been made. The Examiner and the Washington Post have both reported that … Read more →
Raheem Jackson’s favorite quote came from Mohandas Gandhi, who said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” Friends and family are saying that that sentiment was how Jackson lived his life: applying himself passionately to his studies (he was a straight-A student with a $50,000 college … Read more →
A funeral service for slain teen Raheem Jackson is planned for Friday at 9 a.m. at Allen Chapel AME, 2498 Alabama Avenue, according to Jackson’s obituary. A vigil is planned for Thursday night. His obituary said: Raheem was a beautiful young man with a contagious smile. He had a passion for sports and was a … Read more →
Friends and families are mourning the violent deaths of six people who lost their lives in four days of violence last week. Vigils and memorials started over the weekend and are likely to continue throughout the week. The victims are: Shonell Corriea, aka Chris, a 22-year-old father from Northwest D.C. He was shot and killed … Read more →
A vigil in memory of 16-year-old Raheem Jackson is planned for Thursday evening (April 14) at 7:30 at the Fort Davis Recreational Center (pictured on the map above), according to ANC Commissioner Robert Jordan. Read more →
DC police just released the following statement on the shooting death of 16-year-old Raheem Jackson, who was killed Thursday night in Congress Heights: (Washington, DC) —Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred in the 1300 block of Congress Street, S.E. On Thursday, April 7, 2011, at approximately 9:25 … Read more →
A shooting in Congress Heights Thursday night killed a 16-year-old boy, the Washington Post is reporting. Friends of the teen identified him on Facebook and Twitter as Raheem “Gunna” Jackson, an HD Woodson High School student, a point guard on the school’s basketball team and a Georgetown fan. DC Fire and EMS responded to the … Read more →
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