A teenage boy suffered a gunshot injury near the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in downtown D.C. on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police Department said in an alert that the shooting occurred near 600 Maryland Avenue SW, a third of a mile from the museum.
First responders found the victim conscious near the 200 block of Sixth Street SW, the police said on X.
The victim, whom police did not name, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police told Washington’s WRC-TV.
The police said that they were looking for two Black male suspects, though only one was described in the police alert.
The suspect police described is 5 feet 6 inches tall with a skinny build and was wearing a gray hoodie, gray pants, a white ski mask and carrying a black bookbag at the time of the shooting.
The suspects were last seen heading southbound toward 300 Sixth Street SW.
The victim and whoever shot him knew each other, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Tom Lynch told Washington’s WJLA-TV, and the two were walking together when the shooting occurred.
The victim is a student at Richard Wright Public Charter School in Southwest, school officials told the ABC affiliate. The officials didn’t say whether the alleged shooter is also a student at the school.
Gunfire struck and punctured a window at the museum, though no one inside was injured. Bullets also hit and broke some of the windows of a nearby parked van, but the tourists using the van were not inside at the time of the shooting, according to WRC-TV.
