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12-year-old boy wounded in DC shooting

As of 7 a.m. Friday, Ponds Street Northeast is still closed off. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
As of 7 a.m. Friday, Ponds Street Northeast is still closed off. Police will likely canvass the area in daylight. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
The corner where a 12-year-old boy was shot. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
The corner where a 12-year-old boy was shot. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
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As of 7 a.m. Friday, Ponds Street Northeast is still closed off. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
The corner where a 12-year-old boy was shot. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen)
The corner where a 12-year-old boy was shot. (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen) (СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ/John Domen )

WASHINGTON — A boy has critical injuries following a shooting in Northeast D.C. on Thursday.

It happened in an alley around 7 p.m. on the 4400 block of Ponds Street Northeast near the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

Multiple rounds from multiple firearms were discharged, and it is still not known if an exchange happened, D.C. police Chief Pete СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓham said.

The boy was outside but it does not look as if he was a target or that he was involved, he said.

No guns have been recovered, and police are questioning some people in a vehicle that they have stopped.

“We gotta get serious about gun offenses, and in my opinion we don’t take gun offenses seriously right now,” said СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓham.

Below is the area where the shooting happened.

Abigail Constantino

Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.

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