Marita Michael co-founded "Forgiving Mothers" after her son, Devin Fowlkes, was killed by a stray bullet in 2003. She was evicted from her rental home while recovering at a nursing home. In 2015, at age 27, a D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison for fatally shooting a man outside a D.C. nightclub. Documents filed in D.C. Landlord-Tenant Court showed that Michael was notified in December about an eviction hearing to be held the following month. She says the landlord began asking her to leave last summer, after she began complaining about a rat infestation.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2018 23:02 UTC