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
-- Robert Samuels
July 1: Maurice Darnaby
Patricia Davis vowed she would never go to a funeral for one of her students.
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As a D.C. schoolteacher, and over her 38 years as an educator, she declined a lot of them.
But then Maurice "Moe" Darnaby was killed, and a week later she found herself at First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover, along with 700 other mourners.
Darnaby, 35, whom she taught in second grade and hadn't seen since, was raised by a single mother in Southeast Washington. He realized his dream of being a D.C. business owner in 2004, when he opened A & L Market in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Northwest.
He was killed in the store at closing time, shot during an apparent robbery. Detectives have not made an arrest and are investigating the case.
Darnaby worked at the store 12 hours a day, six days a week. He regularly dispensed advice to young people and would let customers buy on credit if they were short on cash.
He was married to Allison Darnaby, his high school sweetheart, and died just shy of their 11th wedding anniversary. The couple had two daughters, Brianna, 8, and Amirah, 6.
"We never thought this would happen to us," his wife said. "We thought we would grow old together."
-- Allison Klein
July 2: Davion Holt And Michael Lucas
Davion Holt and Michael Lucas grew up together and were gunned down together early in the morning in a dreary section of Southwest Washington.
Holt, 20, died at the scene. Lucas, 16, who never regained consciousness, died six days later.
