WASHINGTON, D.C. – A midnight shooting this morning left a 5-year-old girl injured in Southeast, D.C. Detectives from the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department are investigating the shooting.
Just after 12 am, a vehicle drove by an event at the Berry Farms Rec Center at the 200 Block of Sumner Road. An unidentified person began shooting, and a 5-year-girl at the basketball court was struck in the ankle. She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and expected to make a full recovery.
Authorities are actively searching for a black Dodge Charger suspected to be linked to the shooting.
If you have any information about this incident, please take no action but call the police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department’s TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.