Document: Homicide in Truxton Circle Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened on the afternoon of Nov. 19.

At around 3:41 p.m., officers responded to the 1400 block of North Capitol Street, NW for the report of a shooting.

There, they found 59 year-old Marcella Johnson suffering from a gunshot wound.

She was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

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