WASHINGTON -- Three people were shot at a bus stop on Southern Ave SE early Sunday morning.
According to the police report, a three year-old boy, a six year-old girl and 20-year-old man were hurt after the shooting.
The police report identifies the 20 year-old man as Duane Antione Rorie of Oxon Hill, Md.
All three were taken to local area hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.
"When I hear something like that, I go to shock," said area resident Mercer Boatwright, who lost his own nephew and two sisters to gun violence. "It's somebody's child, my next door neighbor or something."
Though police data shows homicides with a gun in Ward 8 are down this year compared to last year, assaults with a gun are up.
Darryl Hairston has been fighting to put an end to gun violence since he lost his son three years ago. He told WUSA the fact that two children were shot overnight shows the community still has a lot of work to do to put an end to this epidemic.
"When it comes to these young black men today that’s firing these guns out here at each other, whats going on in your head, do you care, how was you raised? Did you run around, did you just shoot people randomly? Because when you showed up in a Sedan, you seen the kids. You seen the kids, you didn’t say, 'No, I'm not gonna do this to the kids there.' But you did it anyway," he said.
Police are still looking for a suspect and motive. They're on the lookout for a dark Sedan with tinted windows which has last seen heading southbound on Southern Ave SE.