Boy hospitalized after DC shooting near Brookland Middle School

A boy is currently hospitalized after being shot Thursday afternoon in Northeast D.C.

The shooting occurred in the 900 block of Randolph Street near Brookland Middle School just before 4:30 p.m.

The boy was taken to the hospital and is expected to be OK. Police are looking for a man driving a black vehicle last seen fleeing the 4000 block of 10th Street Northeast.

The incident comes less than a week after 21-year-old De’Mari Twyman of Oxon Hill, Maryland, was shot and killed nearly a mile away on Monroe Street outside the Bennett Career Institute in Brookland.

Below is a map of where the shooting took place.

 

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