Article: Innocently Named, Wrongly Tagged

Pat and James Harris are used to being mistaken for other people. When Patricia Roberts Harris ran for mayor of Washington in 1982, Pat Harris would get telephone calls at home requesting interviews. The same thing happened to her husband in 1974, when James Harris became the first black quarterback to be a regular starter in the National Football League.

They thought that was kind of cute. But what's happening to their son is not. Brian Anthony Harris keeps getting mistaken for people who commit crimes.

The latest episode involved Ralph McLean, 29, who is believed to have shot and wounded two uniformed D.C. police officers in January and then shot and killed FBI agent William H. Christian ...

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