Candlelight vigil for 3 best friends ends in violence in parking lot of Wise High School 

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By D. Kevin McNeir Special to the AFROShortly after the conclusion of a candlelight vigil at Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., for three former football players killed in a car crash on July 6, gunshots rang out in the school’s parking lot.& Citizens flagged down Prince George’s County Police officers still in the area, who rushed to the scene on July 12 where they would find a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds. A candlelight vigil for Minnesota Vikings rookie Khyree Jackson, 24, and his friends who were killed in a car crash a week ago turned deadly for two attendees, who were shot in the parking lot of Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md. (Photo by Tim Umphreys/ Unsplash)According to Capt. Sonny Batth, acting commander, Prince George’s County Major Crimes Division, the investigation into who shot the two victims and why remains in the early stages.& “Our officers, who had been outside of Wise High School during the vigil, had been instructed to remain there in order to ensure that everyone had left the area,” Batth said. “As they were leaving the vicinity, gunshots were heard by citizens who flagged them down. When they...

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