WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two weeks after a five-year-old girl was shot in Southeast D.C. police have announced the arrest of a new person after releasing the initial person they arrested the night of the incident. The girl was identified as Nyiah Courtney, who has been reported as both five and six years old.
According to NBC Washington, police said that Nyiah's younger brother found a loaded gun inside an apartment and shot her. On the night of the incident, police arrested and charged 21-year-old D'Jaunae McCrory Jackson with cruelty to children, assault on a police officer and possessing the gun used in the shooting.
However, police later arrested Kenneth Stokes and now McCrory Jackson is no longer facing a gun charge and has been released from jail. Detectives said that the gun belong to Stokes, who has been identified as McCrory Jackson's boyfriend.
A witness got Stokes on the phone as a detective listened to the call and heard Stokes admit that "he was sorry and was going to turn himself in." The detectives then heard Stokes say "it was his gun" as noted in a court document filed in the case. On the night of the shooting, police said they found a gun on a TV stand inside the apartment on Galveston Street.
They described the gun as a ghost gun with an extended magazine. Police said that the gun was linked to the shooting of a dog back in August just down the street. The dog, identified as Chaos, survived the shooting. Stokes is now facing an animal cruelty charge as well.
On the night of the shooting, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith was asked about the relationship between McCrory and Nyiah. The chief said, "So what we believe at this time is that the female that was arrested for assault on a police officer is a sister to the female victim."
Police also arrested a man inside the apartment and charged him with cruelty to children. Smith said, "What we know about the male individual is that he is a friend of the family who the family has known for quite some time. From my understanding, the child's mother left the children in the care of the adult male while she went to run some errands."
Charges against that man have been dropped. Stokes remains in a D.C. jail and is due back in court sometime in January. As of this writing, the young girl remains in critical condition in the hospital.
In a separate incident, a seven-year-old girl from Memphis, Tennessee, accidentally shot herself after finding a gun at a home in East Memphis. According to FOX 13, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) said that the girl was in a bedroom with her mother watching TV when she found a gun underneath the mattress of the bed.
The mother told police that she didn't know how the child got ahold of the gun which was supposed to be "secured underneath the mattress." The young girl shot herself in the upper thigh and was rushed to a nearby children's hospital in critical condition.
The father of the girl was taken into police custody after he showed up to check on his daughter at the hospital. However, no charges have yet been announced against him. The girl's father told police that the gun belonged to him. MPD said that a Department of Children Services worker has released the girl's two siblings to the custody of their grandmother.
According to NBC Washington, police said that Nyiah's younger brother found a loaded gun inside an apartment and shot her. On the night of the incident, police arrested and charged 21-year-old D'Jaunae McCrory Jackson with cruelty to children, assault on a police officer and possessing the gun used in the shooting.
However, police later arrested Kenneth Stokes and now McCrory Jackson is no longer facing a gun charge and has been released from jail. Detectives said that the gun belong to Stokes, who has been identified as McCrory Jackson's boyfriend.
A witness got Stokes on the phone as a detective listened to the call and heard Stokes admit that "he was sorry and was going to turn himself in." The detectives then heard Stokes say "it was his gun" as noted in a court document filed in the case. On the night of the shooting, police said they found a gun on a TV stand inside the apartment on Galveston Street.
They described the gun as a ghost gun with an extended magazine. Police said that the gun was linked to the shooting of a dog back in August just down the street. The dog, identified as Chaos, survived the shooting. Stokes is now facing an animal cruelty charge as well.
On the night of the shooting, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith was asked about the relationship between McCrory and Nyiah. The chief said, "So what we believe at this time is that the female that was arrested for assault on a police officer is a sister to the female victim."
Police also arrested a man inside the apartment and charged him with cruelty to children. Smith said, "What we know about the male individual is that he is a friend of the family who the family has known for quite some time. From my understanding, the child's mother left the children in the care of the adult male while she went to run some errands."
Charges against that man have been dropped. Stokes remains in a D.C. jail and is due back in court sometime in January. As of this writing, the young girl remains in critical condition in the hospital.
In a separate incident, a seven-year-old girl from Memphis, Tennessee, accidentally shot herself after finding a gun at a home in East Memphis. According to FOX 13, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) said that the girl was in a bedroom with her mother watching TV when she found a gun underneath the mattress of the bed.
The mother told police that she didn't know how the child got ahold of the gun which was supposed to be "secured underneath the mattress." The young girl shot herself in the upper thigh and was rushed to a nearby children's hospital in critical condition.
The father of the girl was taken into police custody after he showed up to check on his daughter at the hospital. However, no charges have yet been announced against him. The girl's father told police that the gun belonged to him. MPD said that a Department of Children Services worker has released the girl's two siblings to the custody of their grandmother.
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Comments
2025-01-04T18:07-0500 | Comment by: arthur
At least he was man enough to take responsibility for it, rather then let someone else take the fall for it, I will at least give him that much.
2025-01-04T18:14-0500 | Comment by: James
THIS is why you TEACH children young what firearms are, how they work, and what they are ALL about .... NOT teaching them is WHY THIS happens ........