A man was shot and killed while carrying a baby in a car seat and holding the hand of a 5-year-old girl in Washington, DC on Friday morning, according to law enforcement officials.
Sedrick Miller, 42, was gunned don at around 8:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of 18th Street in Northeast Washington, DC Police said at a press conference.
“It’s just a horrific event and we really need the public’s help with this,” said Police Commander William FitzGerald, calling it the most disturbing event in DC’s Fifth Ward in years.
Miller, who lived in the area, was walking down the street holding the infant in the carrier with one hand and grasping the second child with the other, when the shooter approached him and fired several times.
Miller was declared dead at the scene. FitzGerald said the children are safe and with their mother. The relationship between Miller and the kids wasn’t immediately clear.
No arrests have been made and police pleaded for the public’s help in identifying the suspect, who was wearing a gray sweatshirt, black mask and light-colored pants.
The horrifying murder had the local community shaken up.
“We are in a space now that there is no regard, no respect for life,” Lauraline Gregory, a mother who lives in the neighborhood, told Fox 5 DC. “Even to the point of shooting someone in front of two children, who could be damaged for the rest of their lives as a result of this. Which is why we’ve got to do something for the next generation.”
“It’s got to get better,” she added.
DC Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie, who represents the Fifth Ward, said the government and police department need to work together to “address the root causes of violent crime” to get criminals off city streets.
“No family and no community should ever witness this type of horrific violence, McDuffle said in a statement.
“We have to remove violent criminals from our streets. We know that most shootings and violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of individuals. We must double down on our efforts to find them and keep them off our streets.”
There is so much crime because so many thug democrat terrorists thrive on the deaths of Americans. They are creating the chaos by defunding the much needed police so the filthy thugs are much bolder in their crimes. The dem taliban are using antifa and blm pigs to do their dirty work so they don’t get blamed for deaths for population control. But we know better. the domestic terrorists need to be put down like rabid dogs.
When you have the Leftist/Progressive Democrat agenda administrating our cities, crimes such as this will not end. Lawlessness, chaos, anarchy have become the hallmarks of the Democrat party. Citizens must remove such people from office if they want things to improve.
race not an issue??? must be black on black crime.
There’s always one common denominator and every one of these kind of stories. The word unarmed! The leaders of these Democratic s******* cities should be held responsible for this kind of crime for what they have done. They selectively enforce the law and ignore other laws and then demand more laws. They refused to enforce the laws on the books now and they turn criminals right back out on the street. If they would tackle the drug problem in this country you would tackle 90% of the crime
This is the kind of uncivilized trash that are allowed to roam our streets and harm innocent families when you elect radical leftist heathen, non-Christian, immoral Democrats to lead you!!
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I noticed that the article did not mention the race of the shooter. That means the vicious killer was a blackie. Whenever a report does not mention the race of the criminal, it is always black. This is the media’s and lieberals’ way of pretending blacks are not the most violent animals in the US. Blacks (13.3% of the US population) commit 52% of the murders in the US. Compare that with white people (65% of the US population) who commit 30% of the murders in the US. White people make up 5 times the population of blacks, but commit just a hair over half the amount of murders. Blacks commit 9.75 times the murders than whites do when adjusted for population.