WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday said officials must"act urgently" to combat crime in the nation's capital after a 17-year-old was fatally shot in a high school parking lot while class was still in session, according to police -- the third shooting involving a child in the District since Sunday.
Assistant Chief of Police Morgan Kane told reporters later Wednesday that police do not believe students inside the school faced any danger. On Sunday, 10-year-old Arianna Davis was shot in the upper body while driving home with family following Mother's Day celebrations, police have said. Metropolitan Police said she was"accidentally hit in a barrage of gunfire."Separately, before dawn on Monday, a 12-year-old girl was shot after a bullet went through the window of her home and struck her in the leg as she was sleeping, according to authorities. She was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.