A 16-year-old was fatally shot Thursday morning inside an house constructing within the Shipley neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. police mentioned.
Washington, D.C
16-year-old fatally shot in Southeast Washington
The residences are positioned close to Suitland Parkway and Alabama Avenue, close to the border with Maryland. Police didn’t describe a potential motive.
“It seems the person was focused,” mentioned Cmdr. Leslie Parsons, head of the D.C. police legal investigation bureau.
Homicides within the District are up about 8 % this 12 months. The teenager killed Thursday is the fourth individual underneath 18 slain since January. Two 16-year-olds have been fatally shot in February and in March, and a 16-year-old was killed in April. A dozen youths have been killed final 12 months, 11 in 2020, and 14 in 2019.
Gun violence has helped put crime on the high of residents’ issues and political priorities. A Washington Submit ballot launched in February discovered that 36 % of respondents cited crime, violence or weapons as the town’s high downside. That was twice as many as in a 2019 Submit ballot.
Not too long ago, an impartial D.C. company launched a report outlining a gun violence discount technique for the town, hoping the suggestions would lower violent crime within the near-term and start assuaging the socioeconomic elements that give rise to violence in D.C. over time.
Hours after the youth was shot in Southeast Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made an look within the Shaw neighborhood in Northwest to announce arrests of members of a suspected drug gang.
Noting that case and the killing of the youth on the opposite facet of the town, Bowser mentioned: “Individuals are uninterested in gun violence. We’re uninterested in mass shootings, and in a metropolis like ours, we’re uninterested in neighborhood violence.”