WaPo article on witnesses killed in DC & MD since 2004; includes a witness murder on the 300 block of V St NW in 2008

Click on the link to read the entire Washington Post article.  The article includes a map of witnesses who were killed since 2004.
           

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Dozens in D.C., Maryland paid the ultimate price for cooperating with police

By Cheryl W. Thompson January 10 at 9:33 PM

The phone call that lured Robert “Rob” Alexander Jr. to his death came just after he returned from dinner with his mother.

“I’ll be right back,” he promised before dashing out the door.

Within minutes, Alexander’s slender 5-foot-8 frame was sprawled near an alley under a streetlight in Northeast Washington.

D.C. police think that Alexander, 22, was killed so he wouldn’t be able to help authorities identify the gunman in the fatal shooting of cabdriver Esaias Alazar outside a convenience store 20 days earlier — a case that also remains unsolved.

Alexander is one of at least 37 people in the District and Maryland who have been killed since 2004 for cooperating with law enforcement or out of fear that they might, according to a Washington Post examination of hundreds of police and court records. Eighteen of those occurred in the District. Comparable data in Virginia could not be obtained.

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One of the witness killings since 2004 occurred on the 300 block of V Street NW.
                                            
I have included the item regarding the killing on the 300 block of V Street NW that occurred back in 2008: