Their classmate at National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School, football team quarterback Zoruan Harris, was fatally shot in 2016. But every week someone gets shot in D.C.,” said Nevaeh Williams, a 16-year-old sophomore who lives in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. Her cousin was shot four years ago, and she stopped taking the train to school in eighth grade. “When it happens in a school in a nice neighborhood, it’s shown nationwide, but we don’t get that attention,” she said. We are the ones most affected.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2018 14:11 UTC