A 17-year-old was shot Tuesday night near a McDonald's on Georgia Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C. — a city that boasts some of the strictest gun laws in America — and the suspect walked away into the night.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers responded around 9:15 p.m. to the 2300 block of Georgia Avenue NW and found the teenager suffering from gunshot wounds, according to WJLA. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are searching for a suspect described only as a man in a black graphic T-shirt, black pants, and red-and-white shoes. No arrest has been made.
This is the pattern in cities where progressive prosecutors and lenient policies have emptied the streets of accountability. The same day in Cleveland, another shooting outside another McDonald's — but Cleveland police actually made an arrest. According to cleveland.com, a 39-year-old man was shot near the 10700 block of Lorain Avenue in the Cudell neighborhood just before noon. The 35-year-old suspect fled into the restaurant; officers followed him in, took him into custody, and recovered a firearm. The victim is in stable condition.
In Manhattan, a 45-year-old man was slashed in the neck outside a Midtown deli Tuesday evening after a dispute spilled onto the street near 10th Avenue and West 52nd Street in Hell's Kitchen, the New York Post reported. He was transported to Bellevue in stable condition. The suspect fled northbound on 10th Avenue. No arrest.
That slashing was part of a 24-hour wave of knife violence across the city. The Post catalogued the carnage: a Bronx straphanger slashed Monday morning after holding an emergency subway gate open for others; Patricia Cisneros, 49, stabbed two people in Times Square Monday afternoon — one, a new mother, died of her injuries — before she was shot by officers while waving two knives; and a 21-year-old man stabbed near St. Patrick's Cathedral Monday evening during a clash with a BMW driver.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, accountability moves at a crawl. Paul Kwaku Amuzu, 69, was arrested last Friday — more than 17 months after a March 2025 hit-and-run that left a 76-year-old woman lying face down in the street in critical condition, the Hartford Courant reported. Police say Amuzu fled the scene after striking the pedestrian at Fairfield Avenue and Ellsworth Street. He was released on a $25,000 bond and faces court September 8.
In Benton, Arkansas, an investigation into whether a Boys & Girls Clubs staffer punched an 8-year-old was deemed unfounded after police reviewed security footage, Arkansas Online reported. The child's mother, Gwen Taylor, says she still hasn't been allowed to view the footage herself. Police say the mother and child didn't show for a scheduled interview at a child advocacy center; Taylor says she was given the wrong address. The interview has been rescheduled.
D.C. doesn't need another gun law. It needs prosecutors willing to charge and judges willing to hold. Cleveland managed to arrest a shooter the same day. What's the capital's excuse?
