Violent DC teen takeover in upscale neighborhood escalates to gunfire

Even a erstwhile Biden White House advisor is calling retired Democrat-run cities tally amok with transgression aft a chaotic "juvenile takeover" disrupted Washington, D.C.'s upscale Navy Yard vicinity Saturday night, arsenic hundreds of teens flooded the area, sparking fights, robberies and gunfire.

"Blue cities request to aftermath up," Yemisi Egbewole wrote Sunday connected X, responding to societal media video showing the melee. "Tolerating this behaviour is unfair to the residents who unrecorded present and unfair to the kids themselves."

The disturbance comes conscionable days aft the territory established a impermanent juvenile curfew portion successful the aforesaid Navy Yard area. While a citywide curfew for minors begins astatine 11 p.m., critics accidental teen "takeovers" proceed to plague the city.

"The behaviour displayed [Saturday] nighttime successful Navy Yard cannot beryllium tolerated, and we are precise thankful that nary 1 was earnestly injured," interim Metropolitan Chief of Police Jeffery W. Carroll, a Mayor Muriel Bowser appointee, told WUSA 9 connected Sunday.

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"I commend our members and our partners for their professionalism and for safely recovering 2 firearms from individuals wrong this group. We request parents and guardians to beryllium proactive and cognize wherever their children are and who they are with astatine each times."

In Saturday's latest outbreak, constabulary accidental the assemblage began forming astir 6:30 p.m. ET successful a parkland adjacent First Street and New Jersey Avenue SE, swelling to astir 200 teens by 8:30 p.m.

Video circulating connected societal media shows ample groups of mostly black-clad teens moving done the streets, screaming and warring arsenic officers tried to disperse the crowd.

Just earlier 9:15 p.m., constabulary accidental a radical of teens assaulted and robbed different teen of his shoes and jacket. Minutes later, further fights broke retired adjacent First and M Streets SE, according to WUSA 9.

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Police successful Washington, D.C. made arrests and recovered guns aft a ample teen gathering successful the Navy Yard vicinity connected Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Elissa De Souza)

Around 9:45 p.m., National Guard members witnessed a 15-year-old occurrence a weapon into the aerial wrong the park. The teen was rapidly apprehended and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm, endangerment with a firearm and carrying a pistol without a license.

Police accidental the chaos continued soon after, erstwhile different radical of teens jumped and robbed 2 much juveniles adjacent New Jersey Avenue and M Street. The victims aboriginal went to a infirmary with injuries.

Hundreds of individuals gathered successful Washington, D.C., Navy Yard neighborhood, successful an incidental that saw unit and arrests.

At astir 10:34 p.m., the Secret Service stopped a rideshare conveyance aft spotting a fishy matching a constabulary description. A 16-year-old was arrested aft officers recovered a firearm helium allegedly tried to discard.

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In total, 2 juveniles were arrested and 2 firearms recovered. Despite the violence, authorities accidental nary superior injuries were reported.