Lives cut short: the American children lost to stray bullets
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Carmelo Duncan was strapped into his car seat when he was hit by multiple stray bullets, becoming at just 15 months old one of the youngest shooting victims in the US this year and a symbol of powerlessness in the face of gun violence.
On December 2, he and his eight-year-old brother were in a car being driven by their father through southeast Washington, DC, when unknown shooters opened fire on the vehicle before fleeing in a stolen SUV.
The toddler died at the hospital. His father and brother survived the ambush, for which police say they don t know the motive.
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There have been at least eight shooting incidents in the D.C. area since July that resulted in the injury or death of a child.
Puzzling spike in auto thefts, many of them violent, worries D.C.-area police Paul M. Duggan Jose Banzon, who works in advertising, was spreading holiday cheer in his 2014 Acura SUV, bringing gifts of wine and candy to clients in the District. Just after 6 p.m. on Dec. 15, on the eastbound side of U Street NW in the Cardozo area, he pulled to the curb and got out, leaving the motor running, a bad mistake. “Now, all this took about 30 seconds,” he said of what happened next. In the back of the Acura, in a box, were a half-dozen bottles of cabernet sauvignon and packages of chocolate truffles. He had stopped the SUV to move the gifts to the front seat so he could easily reach them as he made his rounds. Grabbing the box, he stepped to the front passenger door, opened it and put the presents inside.