 A D.C. man gets 20 years in prison for the shooting death of a man in Northeast on the 4th of July last year. D.C. Superior Court Judge Marissa DeMille ordered that 38-year-old Brandon Smith also serve five years of supervised release and register as a gun offender. Smith had been charged with second-degree murder while armed for the shooting death of 43-year-old Charles Stanton of the district. Stanton was found along Patterson Street Northeast.