Article: Teen's `Fast Life' Ends In a Burst of Gunfire; One of the Two Slain Was Grandson Of Woman Profiled in Post Series

Rico Leon Cunningham yesterday came to the end of a road he had traveled for some time.

Cunningham, 15, and a 19-year-old man died in a blazing gun battle that erupted about 4:30 p.m. between two groups of young people in two cars across the street from the Patricia Roberts Harris Education Center in the Washington Highlands neighborhood in far Southeast Washington.

Police did not identify either of the people killed. However, relatives of Cunningham, of Fourth Street SE, said he was pronounced dead at D.C. General Hospital.

Cunningham, who at one time attended the Harris school in the 4500 block of Livingston Road SE, was the grandson of Rosa Lee Cunningham, a woman whose life story was the ...

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