There were five shootings in the city from Tuesday night through early Wednesday evening.
this year, which police attribute to a social media challenge targeting Hyundai and Kia vehicles.
third in that group in per capita killings in all 2022, according to statistics from the police departments. The trend is the same for robberies. D.C. is near the bottom of those cities in per capita auto thefts. Police said 10 minutes later, officers found the 15-year-old critically wounded by gunfire more than two miles away, at Wheeler Road and Mississippi Avenue in Congress Heights.A police spokesman said investigators believe the teenager was shot on Bruce Place and driven in a vehicle to where he was found. Police said they did not know if the youth was in the vehicle when he was shot. Attempts to reach the teenager’s relatives were unsuccessful Wednesday.
Proponents of the overhaul argue that criticism of the sentencing changes are overblown. The bill, they say, brings technical maximum penalties in line with what judges had been handing down all along, and in some cases increases penalties for crimes involving firearms.But even many Democrats opposed the measure and were willing to reject the idea that D.C. should govern its own affairs to stop it.
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