The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A student at Cardozo Senior High School is hospitalized after being shot in the leg outside the school.
Officer Junis Fletcher, a D.C. police spokesman, says authorities were called to the school for reports of a shooting about 12:15 p.m.
D.C. Public Schools spokeswoman Patricia Williams says the shooting happened at the corner of 13th and Clifton streets Northwest, just off school property.
Williams says the tenth-grader was shot by an unknown assailant and has been taken to Howard University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Williams says it’s not clear why the student wasn’t in class, or what the motive for the shooting might have been.