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Mon Mar 4, 2024, 08:48 PM Mar 2024

D.C. teen arrested for murder of former interpreter who fled Taliban to Alexandria

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D.C. teen arrested for murder of former interpreter who fled Taliban to Alexandria

James Cullum March 4, 2024 at 1:30pm


Nasrat Ahmad Yar (image via Facebook)

A 15-year-old Northeast D.C. boy was arrested Friday and charged with felony murder while armed in last year’s shooting death of Nasrat Ahmad Yar, a former interpreter with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan, who fled the Taliban in 2021 with his wife and four children and moved to Alexandria.

Yar was working as a Lyft Driver in D.C. on July 3, 2023, when he was shot and killed just at around midnight in the 400 block of 11th Street NE. Video footage near the scene showed four young people running through an alley after the shooting. One of them said, “You killed him,” and another responded, “He was reaching bro.”

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith announced the arrest on Friday, and said that video of four teens running from the scene was instrumental in making an arrest.

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D.C. teen arrested for murder of former interpreter who fled Taliban to Alexandria (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 OP
sadder than sad. -(nt)- stopdiggin Mar 2024 #1
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