Document: Homicide in Northwest, DC

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened on June 4.

At around 9:45 p.m. that day, officers responded to the 1900 block of 7^th Street, NW, for the sounds of gunshots, according to a press release.

There, they found a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds and took them to a hospital.

The man, 31-year-old Clifton Smith, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.

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