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Kevin Hargraves-Shird, a business owner and father of three, died on the afternoon of July 30, several minutes after MPD officers responded to reports about a nearby shooting. (Courtesy photo)

Kevin Hargraves-Shird’s Family to File Civil Suit Against MPD

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

MPD to Increase Presence at Metro Stations

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

A Red Line train prepares to leave the Glenmont Metro station in Silver Spring, Maryland, on March 24. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

MPD, Metro Police to Work Together on Visibility at Train Stations in Wake of Fatal Shooting

by WI Web Staff February 8, 2023February 9, 2023

Dr. Masica Jordan-Alston, CEO of Jordan Peer Recovery and assistant professor at Bowie State University, emphasized the necessary attention that must be given to trauma victims in not only treating medical conditions, “lifestyle diseases,” caused by unaddressed stress, grief, and various elements later manifesting as illness within the body. (Courtesy photo)

When Bullets Pierce the Body and Mind: Life After Surviving a Gun Wound

by Lindiwe Vilakazi February 1, 2023November 30, 2023

After outrage over the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake, his alleged killer, Jason Michael Lewis, a D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation employee, turned himself in and has been charged with second-degree murder. (Courtesy photo)

Jason Lewis Identified as Karon Blake’s Alleged Killer, Charged with Second-Degree Murder

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. January 31, 2023February 1, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

D.C. Police Appoints First Chief People Officer

by WI Web Staff January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

Hylton-Brown Case Latest in Pattern of Deadly D.C. Police Tactics, Family Attorney Says

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

Metropolitan Police Department Cadet Taron Alston speaks during an opening ceremony for the department's new Cadet Corps Training Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in D.C. on Oct. 19. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

MPD Cadet Program Moves Into New Facility in Ward 8

by WI Web Staff October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Since Kevin Hargraves-Shird’s death, family, friends, community members and activists representing Black-led community defense hub Harriet’s Wildest Dreams have coalesced around movement to hold MPD accountable for his death and that of Lazarus David Wilson, a man shot and killed by MPD Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw at the Wharf last month. (Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Police-Involved Shooting of Kevin Hargraves-Shird Leads to Outrage

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (center) speaks during a Feb. 1 joint press conference in northeast D.C. with Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (right) and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee (left) on the rise in juvenile carjackings in the region. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Bowser Admin, Police Union Reach Pay Accord

by WI Web Staff July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

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