Skip to main content In the nation's capital, Black families reel from the pain of hundreds lost to covid-19, killings Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post Dec. 30, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9People prepare on July 7, 2020, to march on the street where Davon McNeal, 11, was fatally shot by a stray bullet after a July 4 cookout organized by his mother, a "violence interrupter" trying to persuade the Washington, D.C., community to put down their firearms.Washington Post photo by Jahi ChikwendiuShow MoreShow Less 2of9Medical workers arrive Dec. 22, 2020, in the Carver-Langston neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., which has been hit hard by covid and gun violence.Washington Post photo by Jahi ChikwendiuShow MoreShow Less