Malachi Yisrael is seen on a construction site in Northeast Washington on Oct. 29, 2013. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)He dropped out of school in the fifth grade and shot a man when he was 13. By the time he was 39, though, Malachi Yisrael had finally found a way out. He graduated in 2013 from a pilot jobs program through the D.C. Department of Transportation that trained him and others as construction engineers. At some point, he changed his name from Theodore Washington to Malachi Yisrael and studied elements of Judaism, according to one of his nephews.

Source: Washington Post July 06, 2017 23:03 UTC