Washington, D.C., just endured a weekend of bloodshed that could make even the most hardened urbanite shudder, with a staggering 12 shootings in a mere nine hours.
This harrowing stretch, one of the most violent of the year in the nation’s capital, unfolded over Friday, October 24, 2025, and into Saturday, October 25, 2025, leaving victims of all ages wounded across multiple neighborhoods.
It all kicked off on Friday around 5:30 p.m., when a teenage girl was gunned down on southeast Yuma Street, a stark reminder that no corner of the city is immune to this chaos.
Barely 15 minutes later, at about 5:45 p.m., a teenage boy was shot on 50th Street, doubling down on the tragedy for the city’s youth.
By 7:30 p.m. that same Friday, the violence spread northwest, with a man shot on 16th Street, proving this wasn’t a localized flare-up but a citywide scourge.
Then, at 8:18 p.m., the horror hit a new low when a 5-year-old boy’s face was grazed by a bullet on Savannah Terrace in the southeast—how does a society let this happen?
Minutes after that heartbreaking incident, the violence escalated near Howard University’s campus during a homecoming event, where five people—three men, one woman, and a teenage boy—were shot.
Thankfully, none of the victims were Howard students, though one reportedly attends Morgan State in Maryland, showing how this crime wave spares no one, regardless of affiliation.
Police did manage to arrest two 19-year-old suspects and recover three guns tied to this incident, though authorities hinted more culprits might still be at large—a small win, but hardly a solution.
Later that Friday night, the gunfire continued with two men shot on Benning Road in the northeast, as if the city hadn’t suffered enough in a single evening.
By Saturday morning, the nightmare persisted, with a man left in critical condition after a shooting on Hiatt Place in the northwest, underscoring just how relentless this spree was.
President Donald Trump has kept the National Guard deployed across Washington, D.C., in a bid to tamp down this rampant violent crime, a move that’s long overdue for a city spiraling out of control.
Police are still hunting for suspects linked to each of these shootings, a daunting task when the incidents are this widespread and frequent.
This weekend’s carnage marks one of the most crime-ridden periods in D.C. this year, a sobering statistic that should jolt city leaders out of any complacency or misguided progressive policies on crime.
While some may cry for more social programs over law enforcement, the reality on D.C.’s streets—where kids and adults alike are caught in the crossfire—begs for a return to order, not experiments in leniency.
