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 ...

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.