After the first shooting, a surgeon warned the teen his body couldn’t take another gunshot wound.
in the District this year and was one of two teenagers killed in the city over the Thanksgiving weekend. Jakhi Snider, a 16-year-old sophomore at the Digital Pioneers Academy charter school, was fatally shot late Saturday morning on Morris Road in Southeast, shortly after family said he left his grandmother’s house to walk to a football game.
The youth’s cousin, Crystal Collins, 53, said the sprawling family is close, and that Snider liked to dance and make people laugh by making silly comments or poking fun at his three younger siblings. “His mom was his number one fan,” Collins said, noting that tragedy struck the family in July when another cousin,Collins said Snider wanted to play football and go to college, and was formulating long-term goals.
Relatives of Riggins said they also lack answers. Riggins, they said, was a young man who helped his grandparents without fuss or pushback, but couldn’t escape the neighborhoods that invited danger for him and his friends. She said that she has three other sons and that none have been victims of violent crime. “Keep praying,” she said, noting Riggins was shot when he was 15, 17, 18 and 19 years old.
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said some victims need help beyond what law enforcement can offer. “There is nothing within the police department toolbox where there is a program we would offer for people who have been shot multiple times,” he said Monday.The first time Riggins was shot, in May 2018 in Southeast, his grandmother said, she “didn’t think he was going to make it.”
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