Arianna Davis was struck in a barrage of gunfire as she rode in a vehicle with her family in Northeast D.C.
Arianna Davis was pronounced dead at a hospital Wednesday, three days after police said bullets from a barrage of indiscriminate gunfire struck her as she and her family rodePolice have not made any arrests, and Chief Robert J. Contee III said Wednesday that he had no updates on the investigation.
Jawanna Hardy, founder of nonprofit Guns Down Friday, said she spent much of Tuesday in the hospital with Arianna’s family. Dozens of her relatives sat in the lobby, barely eating and barely speaking. A pastor joined them, Hardy said, at that point with some hope that the child would survive. The violence has angered D.C. leaders, who described the shootings of the girls as “unacceptable” and renewed their calls to curb the accessibility of illegal firearms. On Monday, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed legislation to include stiffer penalties for illegal gun possession and to make it easier for judges to hold defendants before trial if they have previous convictions for violent crimes.
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