This comment of the day comes from KEIANNA.
Seeing the pictures of the victims just brought tears to my eyes. Joshua look as I remembered him. Just a lil man from around the way…So So sad. Praying for his family, his child and the mother of his child and all his friends. Jesus please, if you don’t hear another one of my prayers, please hear this one….Please Bring Peace to SOUTH EAST & Justice for all the victims. That neighborhood do not need another ring of gun fire. Allow the police to solve these cases ASAP!
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In a night marred by shootings and stabbings in three quadrants of D.C., young people across the city got word late Wednesday and early Thursday that friends had been killed.
The first victim, 22-year-old Shonell Corriea, known to friends by his middle name, Chris, was shot to death in the 700 block of Quincy Street NW, where he lived. Corriea would have turned 23 next month.
“Damn another child lost her father tonight smfd #RIPChris,” NoDJustMoney posted to Twitter.
Across town, in Washington Highlands, Joshua Ruffin, known to friends as Rocket, and Reginald Williams, known as Buster, were shot less than two hours later. Both died. Ruffin would have turned 21 next month and had one child. Williams was 22.
“R I P rocket & buster smh,” @Rasta_Loud posted to Twitter.
Find memories of the three young men after the jump. (Note that some of the posts include profanity.)
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A shooting in Congress Heights Thursday night killed a 16-year-old boy, the Washington Post is reporting.
Friends of the teen identified him on Facebook and Twitter as Raheem “Gunna” Jackson, an HD Woodson High School student, a point guard on the school’s basketball team and a Georgetown fan.
DC Fire and EMS responded to the 1300 block of Congress Street at around 9:30 p.m. and transported one male with a life-threatening traumatic injury.
A lookout was issued for a black male with black clothing shortly after the shooting.
“RIP Raheem,” posted @RealrariTee on Twitter.
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Joshua Ruffin, aka “Rocket” photo from Facebook
The victims of a
double shooting in Southeast DC on Wednesday night have been identified as Joshua Ruffin, 20, of Southeast D.C., and Reginald L. Williams Jr., 22,
both of Southeast D.C of Northeast
D.C.
MPD’s press release follows after the jump.
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Shonell Christopher Corriea, aka Chris from Facebook
tonight identified the victim of
Petworth’s fatal shooting Wednesday night as 22-year-old Shonell Corriea.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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This Comment of the Day comes from “Patch,” who wrote:
I grew up in this neighborhood. I knew these kids on a personal level. It really breaks my heart to see people I have watch grow up lose their lives to violence in this way. Because I grew up in SE, I had the chance to get to know people who are really living right as well as people who may not be living right at all. Everyone who live in that neighborhood wants a better life, but there isn’t anyone around to teach them any better. I am heart broken. However, this is the reason why (once I became a mother) I moved out of that community. Every Spring and Summer, someone I know, from Highlands, dies to gun violence. I am praying that God can bless and restore the people. May God heal the mothers.
UPDATED: NBC Washington is reporting tonight that police have “no information of a death on Wahler Place SE as reported earlier.”
NBC and Examiner.com are reporting that one of the men seriously injured in a double shooting in Washington Highlands has died.
The shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. and preceded a fatal double shooting a half mile away by a little less than two hours. Find a map of the shootings here and a morning roundup here.
UPDATED: A total of four people are dead this morning and seven others injured after a string of shootings—and two stabbings—unfurled across D.C. late Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
The fatalities occurred in the 700 block of Quincy Street NW, where officers were called for a single shooting victim at around 9:42 p.m., in the 700 block of Yuma Street SE where officers were called for a double shooting at around 11:44 p.m. (both victims died), and in the 900 block of Wahler Place SE where a double shooting left one man dead.
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A series of violent attacks across D.C. late Wednesday night injured at least eight people, with two confirmed fatalities as of 12:30 Thursday morning.
At least seven people were shot in four separate incidents in Southeast, Northeast and Northwest D.C. Also in Northeast, at least one person was injured in a stabbing.
The first confirmed fatality was in Petworth; MPD Commander Kimberly Chisley-Missouri confirmed on the Fourth District listserve that a man shot in the 700 block of Quincy St. NW had died.
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