Mourners gathered to remember Karon Blake and to demand transparency and accountability from city officials.
Moments before, the siblings tearfully told a crowd of more than 100 mourners in Northeast D.C. about the pain they felt after the fatal shooting of their older brother, 13-year-old Karon Blake.“I don’t like waking up knowing my brother’s not here with me no more,” Zaire said at a vigil for Karon held Saturday night. “It hurts. It really hurts.”
Police have released limited information so far about the killing, which has provoked anger throughout the city, and prompted demands from supporters of Karon’s family for public identification of the man who shot Karon. Activists have called on police to charge the man with a crime.Police have said the man told them he heard noises shortly before 4 a.m. on Jan. 7, left his residence with his legally registered handgun and saw someone it appeared was breaking into vehicles.
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