There has been a shooting outside of Ballou High School in Southeast District of Columbia, and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia is currently on the scene. Not a single piece of information concerning the shooting has been made public. This narrative is currently being developed and will be updated. MPD is conducting a search for this individual and vehicle in connection with an incident that occurred this morning near Ballou High School that involved rounds being fired.
More About Ballou High School
A public school, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School may be found in Washington, District of Columbia, in the United States of America. Public schools in the District of Columbia include Ballou as one of its schools. The principal is Willie Jackson, who graduated from the school in 1987.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Ballou High School was established with the intention of catering to the needs of individuals residing in the southern region of Anacostia, which encompasses Congress Heights, Washington Highlands, and Bellevue. Frank Washington Ballou, the District of Columbia, was honored with the naming of the school. served as the administrator of public schools from 1920 until 1943.
The novel “A Hope in the Unseen” was written by Ron Suskind and released in 1998. It is about a teenager called Cedric Jennings who attends Ballou High School. A collection of pieces written by Suskind and published in The Wall Street Journal that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize served as the basis for the book. Despite having a difficult childhood, Jennings struggles to get into an Ivy League university. The story recounts his journey to achieve this goal.
Mercury poisoning spread throughout the school in 2003, which resulted in the school being closed for a number of weeks and the kids and staff being relocated to other educational facilities in the surrounding area. The shooting death of James Richardson, who was 17 years old, was caused by Thomas J. Boykin, who was 19 years old at the time. Later on, Boykin was found not guilty of the murder charge against him. In a separate incident that occurred on August 26, 2008, NBC4 News reported that a 16-year-old was shot just off the university grounds, which led to the campus being placed under lockdown.