WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) — A 19-year-old from Hyattsville, Md., was charged for shooting a 15-year-old three times in Southeast D.C. earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) announced Wednesday.
The USAO said the teenager was shoveling snow with a group of friends and relatives in their Southeast D.C. neighborhood on Jan. 19, 2024. Christ Tchakounte, 19, and an accomplice parked their car in a nearby alley and flanked the boy at the intersection of 16th Street and A Street SE.
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Tchakounte shot the victim three times and fled after the teen collapsed in the street.
The victim survived after several months of intensive care…