An off-duty federal security officer fatally shot a 13-year-old would-be carjacker on Saturday in the Penn Quarter area of Washington, D.C., authorities said.
The incident occurred in the 600 block of D Street NW, near 7th Street, around 10:10 p.m., when the teenager, identified as Vernard Toney Jr., approached the off-duty officer in his white Toyota Highlander with at least one other juvenile, according to a report.
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The pair ordered the officer to get out, and one was “holding his hand in his front waistband pocket, as if he had a handgun,” police said. “As the victim was getting out of the car, he produced a handgun and shot one of the suspects.”
Toney was shot, and the other suspect fled the scene, according to the report.
When Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived on the scene, they took the teenager to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds.
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The off-duty officer was waiting for his shift to start when the suspects approached his vehicle, the report noted, and he legally owned the gun he used to shoot Toney.
He is cooperating with authorities, the report noted.
