Document: Homicide in Douglass Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are investigating a homicide that happened on the evening on Nov. 12.

At around 7:25 p.m., officers responded to the 1400 block of Tobias Drive, SE for the report of a shooting.

There, they found 18-year-old Navaras Johnson inside a vehicle suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds.

He was pronounced dead on the scene. His identity is being withheld pending next of kin notification.

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