Middle School Child Shoots Classmate Just Down The Road From The White House

A 14-year-old girl was arrested Monday after shooting a 13-year-old boy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

The shooting occurred around 4:00 p.m. in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The young victim was shot twice but did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

The boy was waiting for a bus home from his middle school when he was shot, his mother said.

“It’s crazy. I just wouldn’t expect that, sending your child to school and you get that phone call that he’s been shot,” the boy’s mother said. “He’s not into the streets; he’s just a good boy. So it really shook the whole family to know that something like that happened to him.”

The female shooter, of Southeast, D.C., was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on Tuesday, according to the police report. The case is still under investigation and officials are offering rewards of up to $10,000 to anyone who provides information about the shooting.

“They need to be off the streets, because if it’s not my son, it’s someone else’s,” the victim’s mother said.

“Nothing like this has ever happened in our family, so he’s just recovering from surgery, and we’re taking it one day at a time.”

Investigators say the motive is not yet known. The victim was said to have been alone when he was shot and is believed to have been the sole target. Law enforcement is working with local businesses to obtain footage from surveillance cameras that may have captured the shooting.