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In the afternoon of Wednesday, May 17, Jefferson Perez was shot and killed in the parking lot of Theodore Roosevelt High School in the 4400 block of Iowa Avenue NW.
Perez was taken by paramedics to an area hospital after the shooting, where he later died. No other injuries were reported, and the gunmen remain at large days later.
"I'll say this. I am a 25-year member of this police department. I live in DC, and I have an 8-year-old son," Metropolitan Assistant Police Chief Morgan Kane said after the shooting. "I can't overstate how heartbreaking it is and how heartbroken I am right now for these kids with what we see happening.
Following his murder, a pair of fundraisers were organized by friends and well-wishers who are rallying around the family.
“(Grandfather) Don Guillermo immigrated from his home country to provide a better life for his family,” Benjamin Lin wrote in one GoFundMe organized on the family’s behalf. “It is heartbreaking to hear of this tragedy and for his family to escape violence in El Salvador only to become the victim of gun violence in America.”
A second fundraiser was also organized by his aunt Mely Perez, which raised more than $5,000 in just one day since it was created.
Anyone looking to donate to the GoFundMe campaign to support Perez’s family can do so here and here.
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