华盛顿, 直流. – Michael Lofton was murdered for breaking up a dice game. His death set off a cycle of retaliation, yet Lofton’s killer was never arrested, his older brother, Larry McMichael, 告诉福克斯新闻.
“God be told, I lost him when he was 18,” McMichael said. “He broke the crap game up and they killed him.”
The next year, McMichael’s close friend was 被谋杀 for inexplicable jealousy.
But those incidents aren’t unusual even though they happened over 20 几年前. 谋杀案 in the nation’s capital most frequently stem from a petty dispute or insult, according to criminologists and local officials.