 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 DeMeo also ordered that 38-year-old Brandon Smith serve five years of supervised release and register as a gun offender. Smith had been charged with second-degree murder while armed for shooting 43-year-old Charles Stanton of the district. Stanton was found along Patterson Street Northeast on the 4th of July 2023 with 13 gunshot wounds.