D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said trauma services will be made available to the victims in two separate shootings that involved teenagers.
Speaking at the ribbon-cutting of the District’s newest early learning center in Ward 7 on Thursday, she was asked about the shootings Wednesday outside the IDEA Public Charter School in Northeast and near Alabama Avenue and G Street in Southeast.
Bowser said the incidents demonstrate “how important it is that we stay focused on guns,鈥� adding, 鈥淲e鈥檙e devastated by it, that three young people are impacted; a school community is traumatized.鈥�
Bowser said the shootings underscore what she called 鈥渟afety infrastructure in buildings,鈥� including 鈥渨eapons abatement at the school, appropriate safety personnel at the school — all of those things are important.鈥�
The D.C. police said a 15-year-old was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the shooting near the IDEA school.
There hasn’t been an arrest in the Southeast shooting. In that case, the victim was described only as a juvenile.
