Two Washington, D.C., children were shot while getting off the Metrobus on Wednesday afternoon.
The children, ages 6 and 9, were found conscious near 14th Street and Sheridan Street, according to Metro Transit Police. They were taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.The incident started when a group of people, between four to six young men, began assaulting a passenger on a 54 Metrobus traveling north on 14th Street NW.
The intended target did not appear to have been shot, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said during a media briefing on Wednesday night. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who was also at the media briefing, said 6-year-old children should be playing with friends and coloring in coloring books, not"fighting for your life or recovering from a gunshot wound."
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