Report: DYRS could have kept alleged killer behind bars

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The District’s Department of Youth and Rehabilitation Services could have prevented Sanquan Carter from being released from jail in March. It didn’t, and just days later the 19-year-old allegedly committed the first murder that started a chain of violence that ended in one of the District’s deadliest rampages, according to an internal attorney general’s report obtained by The Washington Examiner.

Carter’s release from custody just days before he allegedly shot and killed Jordan Howe over a costume bracelet is the norm for the District’s Department of Youth and Rehabilitation Services, the report concluded.

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