Because of an error on the D.C. police Web site, a July 14 article included an incorrect photograph. Michael Dorsey, who was found killed last week in Northeast Washington, is pictured here.
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Each Victim In the City's Violent July Has a Story
He was sprawled in a courtyard of the Carver Terrace apartments, once a notorious place of brick and cement known as "Little Vietnam," in the 2000 block of Maryland Avenue NE.
A handsome man of 25 with a mop of hair and new job at a local supermarket, he was pronounced dead on arrival at Washington Hospital Center a short time later.
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Police, who have made no arrests in the case, initially said he lived in the complex, which spreads over the hill about three miles east of the Capitol. But it turned out that he and his mother had moved out a month before.
So he was remembered but dimly this week by residents who said the terrace, although not as bad as in the past, still was haunted by crime and anonymity.
Hurried passersby scrutinized his picture in the police reward flier. "His face looks familiar," said Ann Howard, 43, who was outside the complex Wednesday working on her car. "That was the one that got killed?"
One person who said he knew Anderson was Dale Andrews, 39.
"I DO know him!" Andrews, who lives in a building adjacent to Anderson's former home, said as he perused the flier. He said Anderson was a stand-up person who used to do maintenance around the complex.
"This is a good man," he said. "This is a good man right here. . . . Somebody shot him? Stop playing. That's not funny. I would never suspect this man to get shot for no reason. I've never heard this man cuss. . . . I've never heard him argue."
"There's nothing you can tell me to make me believe he did something to get shot," he said. "This is crazy."
-- Michael E. Ruane
July 1: Francis Watkins
Francis Watkins, 23, also died July 1 after being shot multiple times in the 4100 block of Gault Place NE. He was about two miles from his home in the 1700 block of Benning Road NE.
Beyond that, little could be learned this week about his life or his death.
