Document: Teenager Killed in Georgetown Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened in the early hours of Nov. 7.

At around 2:56 a.m., officers responded to the the 3300 block of Water Street, NW for the sounds of gunshots. There, they found 19 year-old Franklin Hernandez Arevalo suffering from a gunshot wound.

Arevalo, a resident of Alexandria, Va., was pronounced dead on the scene.

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