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  • Associated Press
At a news conference Tuesday in Rockville, Md., Gloria Allred, attorney for the family of homicide victim Brian Betts, displays a photo of the one-time principal of a D.C. middle School who was killed in his Silver Spring, Md., home.

    Part 4: Violent crime of DYRS wards knows no bounds

    A university student was attacked as he bicycled home after working the evening shift at a waterfront restaurant. A school principal was fatally shot in his bedroom in a Maryland suburb.


  • The 700 block 21st St. NE was the scene of a homicide in the Langston Terrace neighborhood of the District in February. Langston Terrace residents heard the victim's screams. Some even saw the attack that left a 47-year-old handyman dead. (Photograph by J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

    Part 2: DYRS wards increasingly violence-prone

    Carlos Bernard Alexander's cry carried surprise and terror when three boys trapped him in a dark courtyard of the Langston Terrace public housing complex in Northeast Washington and demanded his money.


  • Shooting victim, suspect both wards of the District

    A 19-year-old fatally shot over the weekend in Northwest Washington and the 19-year-old arrested for his killing were both wards of the city's troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), The Washington Times has learned.


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