 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 DiMaio also ordered 38-year-old Brandon Smith to serve five years of supervised release and register as a handgun offender. Smith had been charged with second-degree murder with armed shooting for 43-year-old Charles Stanton of the district. Stanton was found along Patterson Street Northeast on July 4, 2023, with 13 gunshot wounds. That crime was captured on surveillance video.