Woman shot in NE DC shooting slowly recovering in hospital, mother says
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Angela Truth Jarrett said she felt blessed that her daughter survived a shooting in front of an apartment complex in Northeast D.C.
The shooting happened on April 10. 29-year-old Aubrey McLeod of Largo, Md. was killed and five people were injured.
In an interview with DC News Now on Friday, Jarrett said her 30-year-old daughter Kadejah Page was still in Medstar Washington Center Hospital. She suffered gunshot wounds to her back and thigh.
She said that her daughter’s healing and recovery were slow, but she hoped she would be walking soon.
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Her daughter was double parked in front of her apartment complex and had just dropped her two sons when the shooting erupted, Jarrett said.
“She’s alive and she’s speaking and she’s coherent,” said Jarrett, just before she made her daily visit to see her daughter in the hospital. “I don’t know how to verbalize how this is quite…cause I’m still trying to process it. I’m still in the thought of — how did this happen to my family or my child?”
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officials said two unknown gunmen jumped out of a light blue Toyota sedan and opened fire on a crowd in front of an apartment complex near 21st Street and Maryland Avenue Northeast.
Two children ages 9 and 12 were also hit by the gunfire.
Jarrett struggled for words on how this has affected her and Kadejah’s two boys.
“I’m afraid that this particular incident will affect my grandson. You know, he’s a young teen,” she said. “He’s impressionable, and he’s angry at what has happened to his mother.”
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Jarrett said doctors aren’t saying much yet about her daughter’s condition. She said she hasn’t spoken to her daughter about the impact the shooting has had on her.
”We don’t know how long she’ll be here or when she’ll go home,” Jarrett said.
Jarrett said the violence in the District is jarring.
“You don’t want to become numb to it, but I guess we have,” she said. “I guess we have become numb to it because we see it so much that now that it’s hit home, I don’t really know to verbalize it.”
Kadejah’s boys are staying with Jarrett, who said she is thankful that they are going on spring break this upcoming week.
“What’s important is the fact that she’s alive,” she said of her daughter. “And hopefully the authorities do their best to, you know, catch the people who did this.”
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