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The hulking, abandoned Wonder Bread-Hostess Bakery building, across the street from what would become New Community Church.
The author’s Washington Post press badge, 1995.
Captain William “Lou” Hennessy in the homicide office he commanded, 1993.
Pastor Jim Dickerson preaching inside the nascent New Community Church on S Street, early 1980s.
A worker renovates the large row house that would become New Community Church, early 1980s.
MPD Detective Anthony Brigidini, on the right, pursued Kennedy Street gang member Kobi Mowatt to Tanzania. Brigidini and a fellow investigator stand in front of a small hut where Mowatt lived before they arrested him.
John’s Place, on the corner of 7th and S Streets, was a few doors down from the church. The nightclub was a hangout for drug dealers, enforcers and gangsters.
Lou Hennessy in his patrol days, early to mid-1970s.
The author in an alley off S Street.
