A 2-year-old boy is missing after D.C. police said his mother was fatally shot in an alley Tuesday night in Northwest Washington.
The boy, Royce Hawkins, is Black and has brown eyes and black hair. He was wearing a long sleeve yellow-and-blue striped shirt and was last seen in the 500 block of Kenyon Street NW at about 7 p.m. with his mother, said interim D.C. Police chief Jeffery Carroll.
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At about 11 p.m. officers responded to the 600 block of Kenyon Street for reported gunshots, Carroll said. They found a woman in an alley who had been shot. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Carroll said the woman was involved in a verbal argument in the alley with a man, who then shot her and fled.
Homicide detectives responded to the area, and they learned that the woman’s 2-year-old was unaccounted for, Carroll said.
Detectives have been searching for Royce since. An Amber Alert was issued to phones Wednesday morning.
Police asked anyone with information to call 911.
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