In a letter to D.C.’s ABC Board, acting police chief Pamela Smith argued the shooting “can be connected” to what she called “lax security protocols” at the Cru Lounge on H Street NE.
A Washington, D.C., elementary school was placed on lockdown Monday after area gunfire struck the school, while a teenager who was shot Tuesday marked the district's 200th homicide in 2023.
A surge of violence in the District of Columbia has claimed its 200th victim this year with the deadly shooting of a teenager Tuesday in the city's Northwest area.
Students at a D.C. middle school were placed on lockdown Monday afternoon after gunfire struck several windows of a kindergarten classroom in what has become the latest act of gun violence to strike the nation's capital..