‘We don’t have to live like this,’ Black residents say as Washington, D.C., homicides jump 33%

Among the top 25 largest cities in the country, the nation’s capital has one of the highest increases in homicides from 2022 to 2023.

WASHINGTON – When Lisha Quarles found out her son, Mannin, was shot and killed on a corner in the nation’s capital this year, she knew what the ensuing narratives would be. He was a criminal. A nobody. A man who got what he deserved. And then the most painful assumption – he wasn’t even raised right. 

Mannin was in the Southeast area of Washington with friends !

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