David H. Fuller

Fuller, David H. On August 19, 2006, David H. Fuller son of Gail Avent and David Fuller was called home. His life was taken suddenly and he became one of the many victims of senseless violence that plagues the streets of Washington, D.C. In 1992 David and his sister Keatra and brother Derrick moved to Boston and were raised by their loving grandmother Ella Everett of Dorchester. He attended Wayland High School and Middle School through the METCO Program, but graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC as a junior, a year earlier than his classmates. While in high school he received an award for his enrollment in an advanced photography class after one of his pictures was featured in a Boston newspaper. He raised his nephew Christopher Fuller as his own son. Soon after graduation he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He served his country in the Iraq War as a journeyman. His family would shake their heads in disbelief as he, 19 at the time, described in detail how to dismantle a fighter jet. His daughter Tijia was born while he was stationed in Turkey to his wife Monica Fuller of Maryland. To return to his country and to be killed not in the streets of Iraq but in Washington, DC, is truly a tragedy. After receiving an Honorable Discharge, David worked with the Communications Department of the District of Columbia Fire Department. Residents of the neighborhood where he was found assumed that he was another victim of a drug deal gone bad. His mother was one of the first African American women to serve on the District of Columbia Police Department and his sister is currently a graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. But mayoral candidates are capitalizing upon the tragedy and offering whomever will listen an educated official summarization and have yet to offer their condolences to the family. Just last year David hosted, at his own expense, a Back to School Party for children in the neighborhood. Anyone was welcome to take part in music, food, games and to take away a gift bag filled with school supplies. David will be laid to rest amongst the nation¹s fallen soldiers at Quantico military base on Wednesday, August 30th. Funeral services will be held at Randall Memorial Baptist Church, 4417 Douglas Street, NE starting at 9:30am that morning. A scholarship fund has been created in his honor to allow for his daughter and the many misunderstood youth who are trying to make a way out of the life society has painted them into. The family can be reached at 301-351-1784.