Father Fatally Shot in Front of Son, Youth Football Team in Southeast DC

A person was shot and killed in entrance of his son and a soccer discipline stuffed with different youngsters in Southeast D.C. Thursday night, police say.

Somebody gunned down 36-year-old D’Angelo Taylor within the 1500 block of Mississippi Avenue SE about 7:20 p.m., police stated. Taylor died on the scene. The sphere is near Malcolm X Elementary Faculty and Oxon Run Park.

He was watching a youth soccer follow with different mother and father and kids when the capturing occurred proper in entrance of them, police stated. Taylor’s son was amongst those that witnessed it.

A member of the family instructed News4 Taylor had gone to the follow to attempt to reconnect together with his 11-year-old son.

A person was shot and killed in entrance of his son and a soccer discipline stuffed with different youngsters in Southeast D.C. Thursday night, police say. News4’s Derrick Ward reviews.

“I do know what it’s wish to lose a dad or mum at a really younger age,” coach Kevin Cannaday stated. “It is extremely traumatizing.”

Cannaday based the nonprofit Triumphant Leaders Youth Mentoring Program. The Triumphant Lions follow on a discipline throughout Mississippi Avenue from the purple brick flats the place he grew up. It’s a pair blocks from the place he misplaced his mom at age 17.

Cannaday makes use of management, mentoring and behavioral well being abilities he discovered in jail. He washes vehicles to pay for program prices and tools. No little one is turned away as a result of their household can’t afford it.

“Lots of my youth, you understand, they’ve behavioral well being points,” Cannaday stated. “By the point they get to me, inside two weeks, oh, it’s a turnaround.”

Cannaday says it’s onerous to try to get youngsters to consider they matter when violence and lawlessness surrounds them.

“We’ve vehicles that got here down right here, flew up right here in the course of our follow, drove up via there, crashed within the woods as a result of he did strive to not hit our children however he did experience via there, bought out, tossed his gun,” Cannaday stated.

Apply was canceled Friday.

Cannaday stated he’d wish to see a D.C. police cruiser parked there on follow days and even invitations officers to volunteer with the workforce in the event that they’d like.

Police stated they do not consider that the capturing stemmed from any dispute on the follow. They consider the Taylor was focused by the shooter.

Nobody else was injured. No arrests have been made right now, and police don’t have any suspect description.