Violence should not be part of life in Southeast Washington
I was driving through a neighborhood in Southeast Washington where a 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded on Friday night. A few blocks away, seven adults had also been shot that night. But you’d never know it from the look of things.The quiet tree-lined neighborhood sits on a bluff with some areas having a sparkling winter view of downtown D.C. There were very few people outdoors on this Monday afternoon.
The first shooting had occurred at about 10 p.m. on Friday. Seven Black men were standing on a sidewalk in the 500 block of Lebaum Street SE, when shots were fired from a passing car. All of them were hit. The car was described as a dark sedan with a rifle barrel pointing out of a window. The gunmen were headed for a one-way street that led out of the neighborhood when they came upon the 12-year-old girl and opened fire again.
On April 2, three people were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Martin Luther King Jr. near Mellon Street SE. Police said they were looking for a black car with an AR-15-style weapon sticking out of the window.“Rival groups, crews, neighborhoods, will sometimes just target other neighborhoods and they indiscriminately shoot into areas they are having feuds with,” Police Cmdr. John Haines of the Criminal Investigations Division explained at a news conference after that shooting.
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