The District's police chief met with city teens to discuss crime and violence at youth summit.
Friday night to implore, “We must demonstrate to children and young adults that there is hope, that here is value to life.”in the District this year, the most since 2003, and eight of the victims were juveniles. Police said in October that 24 juveniles had been arrested on murder charges in past two years and that 78 juveniles have been arrested in carjackings this year.
In an interview Saturday, McDuffie said the violence “is not small isolated events. It is happening in places across the District. This is a public health emergency, and we need to address it as such.”At the summit, Wallace, whose 17-year-old daughter Jamahri Sydnor was fatally struck by a stray bullet in August 2017, spoke of the heartbreak of losing a child. Wallace, who at the time was D.C.
Police said gunfire came from two assailants who hid in bushes and emerged to shoot at a group across the street. Wallace said her daughter was turning off a song on the radio with inappropriate lyrics she didn’t want her nephew to hear.
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