A 16-year-old was fatally shot Thursday morning inside an house constructing within the Shipley neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. police mentioned.
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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.”
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‘Unacceptable’: Man killed in shooting near elementary school’s track meet in DC – WTOP News
Officers are searching for three suspects who police said hopped out of a vehicle and fired at a man walking along a sidewalk near the school’s track in the 800 block of 26th Street NE.
A man is dead after he was shot Tuesday as an elementary school track meet was underway at a vacant high school in Northeast D.C., police said.
Officers are searching for three suspects who police said hopped out of a vehicle and fired at a man walking along a sidewalk near the school’s track in the 800 block of 26th Street NE.
“No child should ever have to experience what was experienced today,” D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said.
The suspects took off after the shooting, which happened just before 2 p.m., Smith said. The vehicle police believe the suspects used was found in the Fort Lincoln area, and it was on fire.
Police haven’t identified the man who died at the scene, Smith said during a 4 p.m. news conference.
The elementary school was holding a track meet at Spingarn High School, which has been closed for more than a decade.
“During an elementary school track meet individuals opened fire, putting the lives of our children at risk, and any use of a firearm in our community, especially near our schools, around our children, is unacceptable,” Smith said.
It’s unclear whether the suspects fired in the direction of the school when they shot and killed the man.
There are several schools nearby, including Two Rivers Public Charter School and Phelps High School. A D.C. schools spokesperson said all public school students are safe and accounted for.
“We are continuing to work very closely with our DCPS schools and charter schools to reunite our kids who are still in some of the classrooms with their parents and with their families,” Smith said.
Smith said law enforcement is reviewing footage of the shooting and working to find the suspects.
“I’m a track athlete. I like to be out in public and I like to be able to recreate, and we want our children to be able to do that in safe spaces,” Smith said. “We’re going to do everything we can to find out who these individuals are, and we’re going to hold them accountable.”
Smith said anyone with information about the shooting can call police at 202-727-9099 or text at 50411.
WTOP’s Mike Murillo reported from the scene.
WTOP’s Ana Golden contributed to this report.
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