‘It Hurts’: 16-Year-Old Arrested in DC Killing of 15-Year-Old

D.C. police say the youngest murder sufferer within the District this 12 months — a 15-year-old boy — was shot by one of many youngest murder suspects. 

A 16-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday within the killing of Malachi Jackson, News4 is first to report. 

Jackson was shot a number of instances on April 11 within the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Northwest D.C. He had simply moved to the neighborhood, Alvoncia Jackson, his grandmother, stated Tuesday. 

“It hurts as a result of my grandson is not right here, and this younger man will get to nonetheless breathe on God’s earth. He will get to breathe God’s air. He will get to nonetheless discuss to his household,” she stated by means of tears.

Jackson was killed in a barrage of gunfire within the 3000 block of thirteenth Road NW. He was hit within the head and the chest, his grandmother stated. 

Officers responded at about 10:50 p.m., and Jackson was pronounced useless on the scene.

News4’s Pat Collins speaks to the heartbroken mom of a D.C. teen murdered within the Columbia Heights neighborhood.

Alvoncia Jackson stated she believes that younger individuals within the neighborhood tried to power him to promote medicine and take medicine however he refused. Then they set him as much as be killed, she stated.

The household did all they may to lift Jackson nicely, his grandmother stated.

“We did our job. We saved him in church. We saved him in actions in class. We saved on him. We stayed on him so he didn’t go on the market in them streets, and so they discovered him out anyway. The evilness discovered him,” she stated.

The killing of the teenager was captured on a safety digicam. Police used that proof to arrest the suspect, who has a historical past with police, Capt. Kevin Kentish stated, citing an issue with repeat offenders. 

“Once we lock individuals up, we hope that they’re held, however generally it’s not what occurs,” he stated. 

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