Suspects were in juvenile justice system when Betts was killed

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All three teen suspects in the shooting death of D.C. school principal Brian Betts were supposed to have been monitored by the District’s juvenile justice system when the principal was killed, officials admitted.

Alante Saunders and Sharif “Reef” Lancaster, both 18, had each been committed to the custody of the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services after years of arrests, District records show.

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