A 14-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. Monday night was injured in a shooting three weeks before his death, police say.
D.C. police officers found Antoine Manning shot in the 2600 block of Birney Place SE around 8:41 p.m. on Halloween night.
Manning, a 9th grader at a nearby high school, was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries, but did not survive, police said.
Authorities said the shooting was targeted, and that the teen lived on the block. More details on the search for the shooter were not immediately provided.
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On Oct. 9, Manning was shot in the ankle in front of his home. D.C. police released surveillance photos of suspects in that shooting. The suspects are still wanted, according to police.
Police have not said if they believe the same suspects were involved in Monday's shooting.
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Manning was a star player on the Clock Boyz football team at the Watkins Rec Center in Southeast.
"My grandson was a good boy. All he done was play football, you know, and y'all kids need to put the guns down, man," Manning's grandfather told News4.
He had strong words for his grandson's killer Tuesday and said that whoever is responsible should turn themselves in to authorities.
"You don't need a gun to solve the problem! If you've got a problem with somebody, you need to talk it out!" he yelled out while pacing up and down a sidewalk.
"This family should not be grieving the loss of a 14-year-old child tonight. The person who had, I'm sure what will be an illegal firearm that took this young man's life, should not have been in possession of that illegal firearm," police Chief Robert Contee said. "Our goal is to bring this case to closure, to bring some sense of closure for this family."
Latanya Shannon, a parent who has a 14-year-old son and stepson said she feels like it could have been her son.
“Anything can happen to anybody, at any time, so it’s just scary to have a child in this area alone," Shannon said.
Manning is the second teenager shot and killed in D.C. this month.
