Federal prosecutors dropped charges against five people charged in beating to death a man ouside a U Street area nightclub.

The men — four employees and an owner of the DC9 nightclub — were charged in the death of 27-year-old Ali Ahmed Mohammed last month. Police said Mohammed threw an object through a window at the club and was chased by a group of people and beaten to death.

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