D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was alarmed enough by Sunday’s shooting of 19-year-old David Lee Robinson to show up at a vigil and express his exasperation. “He was being robbed for his Nike tennis shoes,” the mayor said. “A life for a pair of Nike tennis shoes? Come on, ladies and gentlemen. It is time for us to be able to end this type of tragic violence in our society.”

Young David’s demise in a shootout on Foote Street Northeast was one of the first homicides this year of the senseless variety that take too many lives in our town.

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