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Slaying of planned park’s namesake still unsolved

By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
December 26, 2008

Diamond Teague was 19 years old and going from the rough streets of D.C. on to college when he was gunned down on his Southeast Washington front stoop, and police are still looking for his killer.

Teague had earned a scholarship to the University of the District of Columbia by helping with projects for the Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofit organization for disadvantaged youth. Teague was the drummer at Galilee Baptist Church and an avid basketball player, and friends and family said he had managed to avoid the street life and violence that had marred his neighborhood.

Early on the morning of Oct. 9, 2003, Teague was playing video games at his house on the 2200 block of Prout Street SE, when he got a call from a friend to go outside to play. Witnesses said they heard laughter, a short argument and them a loud pop. Teague was fatally shot in the head.

Five years after Teague’s death, his friends and city officials planned a park near  Nationals Park that has been dedicated in his name. The Diamond Teague Memorial Park is a planned $16 million, 39,000-square-foot plaza with water taxi piers at the terminus of First Street. The park has been envisioned as the “window” between the new baseball stadium and the Anacostia River.

Teague’s murder remains unsolved, and D.C. police still don’t have any suspects or leads in the case.

Anyone with information about Teague’s death can contact police through the tip line at 888-919-2776 or through a text messaging number: 50-411.

The Metropolitan Police Department is offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to a conviction.


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