A teenage girl was shot Tuesday afternoon about a block from Dunbar High School, and someone then dropped off the wounded girl at the school, police say.
D.C. police believe the victim is 17. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
Police said they were called to the school in the 100 block of N Street NW shortly after 3 p.m. The girl was shot in the 200 block of Morgan Street NW, about a block away from Dunbar.
Police believe she is a likely student at the school. "We're still trying to get that information, though," Assistant Police Chief Sylvan Altieri said in a media briefing Tuesday about 5:15 p.m.
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No shots were fired inside the school or on school grounds, Altieri confirmed.
He said the girl was dropped off at Dunbar in a vehicle by "unknown parties" they're trying to identify, according to preliminary information.
Police said the girl was conscious and breathing when she was taken to a hospital, where she was receiving medical care.
The investigation is in its early stages and it wasn't immediately clear what led up to the shooting. They shared an image on social media of a suspect.
Altieri said police didn't know whether the victim and the shooter knew each other and asked for anyone with information to come forward.
"Somebody out there knows the people who committed this crime," Altieri said. "They could be a relative, a significant other. Someone you know. If you know that person, please contact the Metropolitan Police Department."
Gunfire affects nearly every school in D.C. Only two of the District’s 566 public and charter schools went 10 years without a single shooting nearby, according to a joint investigation by the News4 I-Team and The Trace Gun Violence Data Hub. Between 2014 and last year, there were 132 shootings within 500 yards of Dunbar High School, more than all but 3 DC schools.
UPDATE (Dec. 17, 5:43 p.m.): Police said initially that the victim ran to the school. Later, they said she was dropped off in a vehicle.
