MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING NEIGHBORHOODS

I was wondering why, about an hour ago, a local news van pulled up on the street in front of my house, one cameraman got out, shot maybe twenty seconds of the high school across the street, then got back in and drove off. Now I know why:

A 16-year-old student at Cardozo Senior High School was shot once in the leg this afternoon during an incident across the street from the Columbia Heights school, police said.

The student was taken to Howard University Hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, D.C. Public Schools spokeswoman Patricia Alford-Williams said.

The shooting occurred shortly after noon at the intersection of 13th and Clifton streets NW. Three suspects were seen running from the scene, according to police, and police took two people into custody for questioning.

And I keep telling people this neighborhood is getting safer? It's not the first shooting within a block of my apartment since I've been here, and not the first time Cardozo High has been newsworthy.

At least unlike Frank, I haven't seen somebody murdered up here in SoCo, as he has over in Brookland. And while he certainly traded up by moving over to here... apparently not by as much as he might have thought.

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posted by WWB at 7:55 PM |