Document: Fatal Shooting in Northeast Boundary Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide happened in the early hours of Dec. 2.

At around 12:52 a.m., officers responded to the 400 block of 61^st Street, NE for the sound of gunshots.

There, they found 24 year-old Shalonte Pearson inside a vehicle, suffering from a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at an area hospital.

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