WP: Spingarn Athlete Charged In Shooting

Gary Durant (17), a star high school athlete from Spingarn High School (located behind the Langston Dwellings), has been arrested in the fatal shooting a few weeks ago of Lovell Harrison (also 17). Mr. Harrison's body was discovered in an alley. Mr. Harrison was a high school student in Arlington, but formerly resided in the neighborhood. His father was killed two years before only a few blocks away. Mr. Durant, of the 2200 block of H Street NE, has been charged with second degree murder while armed. The shooting occurred in the Carver Terrace neighborhood (located east of Trinidad).