To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped the District in the 1980s. He died within a year of his ...

Rayful Edmond III, the notorious figure once known as the “king of crack” in Washington, D.C., has been released from ...

To those gathered at Clinton Baptist Church in suburban Maryland on Tuesday he was “Ray” — a brother, father, uncle and beloved friend whose sudden death last month cut short his dreams of ...

To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.