D.C. police officer shoots armed robber

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A D.C. police officer shot an armed 31-year-old man who was robbing someone in Southeast D.C., police said.

Early Tuesday morning, Paul Smith, of Southeast, approached three people who were sitting in a vehicle at Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue and Sumner Road and asked them for a ride, police spokesman Officer Araz Alali said.

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