As the federal government wages a war on crime in Washington, D.C., deploying the National Guard, 12 people were reportedly shot and wounded in just nine hours over the weekend.
According to local media outlet FOX5 News, the shootings began around 5:30 p.m. on the 24th, when a teenage girl was shot on Southeast Yuma Street. Fifteen minutes later, another teenager was shot on 50th Street. At 7:30 p.m. and 8:18 p.m., a man and a 5-year-old child were struck by stray bullets.
Shortly after, a shooting near Howard University, where homecoming festivities were taking place, left five people injured: three men, a woman, and a teenager. Around midnight on the 24th, two men were wounded on Northeast Benning Road, and in the early morning hours of the 25th, a man was wounded at the Northwest Hyatt Place.
Police said last weekend’s shooting was the most violent in D.C. this year, adding that two suspects in the shooting near Howard University have been arrested and additional suspects are being sought.