Document: MPD Investigating a Fatal Shooting

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The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Leonard Taylor Jr. that took place on Oct. 20, on the 1500 hundred block of 19th Street, SE. Upon responding to reports of a vehicle crash in the 1400 block of 18th Street, Southeast, officers discovered the victim with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle. He was later pronounced dead on the scene.

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