10-year-old girl shot in Northeast DC, police say
D.C. police have started investigating the shooting of a 10-year-old girl riding with her family on a Mother’s Day drive in Northeast.
D.C. police have started investigating the shooting of a 10-year-old girl riding with her family on a Mother’s Day drive in Northeast.
District police said the shooting happened in the 3700 block of Hayes Street NE at around 9 p.m. while a family was driving home.
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“We do not believe the 10-year-old was targeted — or the family,” said assistant police chief Andre Wright in a midnight press conference Monday.
Family members realized their daughter had been struck in the upper body moments after hearing gunshots in the area.
“When they heard the sounds of gunshots and, as they continued to travel a little further down the road obviously, the 10-year-old yelled out. And they were able to look back and see that their daughter was shot,” he said.
Police said she was taken to a firehouse in the 1500 block of C Street SE at around 9:20 p.m. with apparent gunshot wounds as her parents attempted to give her care.
A spokesperson for the department said DC Fire and EMS took the victim to the hospital. Wright said family members were in an area hospital with their daughter, who remained in critical condition early Monday.
“This was Mother’s Day, and they were doing what we all were doing today: celebrating the outstanding work and efforts of moms,” Wright said. “And that’s what this entire day should be about. We should be talking about Mother’s Day, not talking about this tragic event of a 10-year-old being shot.”
Officers are asking anyone with information to call the department. A definitive description of the suspect in the shooting was not available early Monday.
This is a developing story.
Source: WTOP
