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Two men sentenced in killing of D.C. girl, ending years of prosecutions
After seven years and two grueling trials, their fatigue and frustration still filled the courtroom late last week.
The family of Makiyah Wilson, a 10-year-old girl killed in a spray of bullets on a July afternoon in 2018, spoke of losing the child, of missing her, of not being able to celebrate her sweet 16th birthday. Through it all, their anger seemed never less than palpable toward the nine co-defendants charged in a deadly burst of violence in the courtyard of a Northeast Washington housing complex, where 50 shots were fired in 20 seconds.
