Two teenage boys were shot in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, and ran to a school to get help, police said.
Officers found the teens suffering from gunshot wounds just before 10 a.m. in the 3900 block of 8th Street SE in the Washington Highlands area, police said. The KIPP DC Legacy College Preparatory school and a recreation center are in the same block.
The teens, believed to be 16 and 17 years old, were conscious and breathing when they were taken to local hospitals, police said. They're expected to survive.
Police said the teens ran to the KIPP school, where they're students, for help. The shooting happened on 8th Street and not at the school, according to police.
Parents and guardians who got word there was a shooting near the school rushed to pick up their children.
“That’s a feeling you can’t, you can't describe, cause he — man, if something happened to my baby, I don’t know what I’d do,” Yvette Bennaugh said after picking her grandson up from the school.
Dozens of officers were around the school soon after the shooting, and investigators could be seen sifting through bushes for clues and laying out evidence markers.
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A woman who lives near the school says she was sitting on her walker, then got down on the floor to make sure she stayed safe.
“I saw the kids running over there to the school,” she said.
Police are looking for a black SUV with California tags in connection to the shooting. D.C. police said their Real Time Crime Center identified photos of the suspect vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.
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