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Authorities are still searching for the suspect, but reports confirm Kendra Childs was the victim of a fatal drive-by shooting.

Childs' family believes she was targeted. Childs was home alone when the shooting occurred. Her body was discovered by her boyfriend when he returned home, KTRK reports.

A 17-year-old died after a 911 dispatcher hung up on the teen trying to save his life, FOX News reports. Seventeen-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver was hanging out with several friends,…

A 10-year-old is dead after a suspected drive-by shooting in Miami, WPLG – Miami reports. The shooting happened Tuesday evening on the 1900 block of Northwest Fourth…

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: One of the five men arrested in connection with a series of fatal shootings last month that left five people dead –including a mass drive-by shooting — pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of second-degree murder while armed and is cooperating with police investigators in one of the deadliest outbreaks of […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A D.C. Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the fifth and final suspect in a deadly drive-by shooting last month to be held without bond in D.C. jail. Prosecutors charged Jeffrey D. Best, 21, with four counts of first-degree murder and one felony murder count in the attacks. His lawyer, Michael […]

VIA WTOP: D.C. Police have arrested at least two more adults in connection with last month’s drive-by shooting in Southeast that killed four people and left five others wounded. Police arrested two adults on Thursday afternoon. A third suspect is still being sought. The arrests come as the District Attorney’s General Office dropped all charges […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Tears and tributes flowed Wednesday at the funerals for teenagers William Henry Jones III and DaVaughn A. Boyd, who died last week in a multiple shooting in Southeast Washington, one of the deadliest outbreaks of gun violence in the District in years. Jones, 19, was working toward his GED and liked […]