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D.C. city official killed in collision between electric scooters
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A woman who was on the other e-scooter, whom police did not identify, was also transported to a hospital and has since been released, police said.
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The director of the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs was killed in a deadly scooter crash Friday night. Talib Shakir died after the scooter he was on collided with another scooter at around 6:47 p.m. at Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue SE, according to police.
The mother of Talib Shakir, who was director of the mayor’s office of returning citizen affairs, said he was ‘determined to make something out of his life, and to serve the people.’