WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A 17-year-old from D.C. was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the May 2025 shooting death of a 14-year-old in Northeast, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Police said the teenage boy, whose identity has not been released, was charged with second-degree murder while armed for the death of 14-year-old Zytina Mason-Brown, of Clinton, Md.
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According to police, officers were called at 5:08 p.m. on May 21, 2025, to reports of a shooting in the 1700 block of Benning Road, NE.
There, Mason-Brown was found unconscious and not breathing, suffering from a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead by DC Fire and EMS at the scene…