On a Tuesday morning, August 10, 2021, the quiet of a Wheaton, Maryland neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunfire. At approximately 8:56 a.m., the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center received a call reporting a shooting in the 2000 block of Blueridge Avenue. When 4th District officers arrived at the scene, they discovered the body of 25-year-old Marvin Alexander Mendoza. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore would later rule his death a homicide caused by m
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