What happened in Theodore Roosevelt High School? Teenage boy fatally shot in altercation outside school
Samuel Coleman
Published Jan 08, 2026
A 17-year-old youngster kid was shot to death while he was strolling close to Northwest Washington, D.C’s. Theodore Roosevelt Secondary School. According to the specialists, the episode happened on Wednesday, May 17, and the kid has been distinguished as Jefferson Perez.
Police said that Perez was walking around a walkway on Iowa Road before 2:30 p.m. at the point when somebody from inside a green vehicle pulled up and started shooting soon.
The kid apparently fell in the school parking area, where paramedics directed CPR prior to shipping him to the emergency clinic in basic condition. A couple of hours time later, he died at the emergency clinic.
While talking at a public interview, specialists uncovered that there was an actual fight in the parking garage of Theodore Roosevelt Secondary School and they tracked down a gun there. In any case, as of composing it isn’t clear assuming that a similar firearm was utilized to kill the kid.
“Apparently there was a showdown of some kind, and we don’t be aware at this time what hinted at it, yet we truly do realize that we have a firearm recuperated on the scene.”
“What makes it troublesome is that there is somewhat of an obstacle, so we have no data at this time to demonstrate there was a shootout that happened all the while.” Jefferson Perez was a secondary school understudy at Theodore Roosevelt Secondary School and had gone to the establishment the day he was shot. Specialists said they researching occurred after he left the premises.
City chairman Muriel Bowser showed up on the scene and asked the D.C. Board to act rapidly on her novel plans to check the city’s increasing crime percentage. She said:
“I trust that they manage them direly, and that implies holding off on holding on until the late spring is over to have hearings and move regulation.”
In an explanation gave to NBC Washington, Jacqueline Pogue Lyons, the Washington Educators’ Association President tended to the lamentable occurrence and added that schools ought to be a protected spot for understudies and staff individuals.
“This episode underlines the requirement for local area schools, which give truly necessary wraparound administrations to understudies and their families, particularly emotional well-being administrations, guiding and tutoring. While the city is managing the expansion of wrongdoing, DCPS should ensure that our children get the intellectual, social and profound assist they with expecting to flourish.”
Specialists accept that understudies at Theodore Roosevelt Secondary School were ever at serious risk. Also, the school returned to working on May 18, the exceptionally following day, with the understudies having advising assets. They will likewise have the help group from DCPS’ psychological wellness for the understudies and staff individuals.
As indicated by D.C. Government funded Schools, lockdowns were active at Theodore Roosevelt Secondary School, Dorothy I. Level Primary School, and MacFarland Center School until excusal. Powell Primary School was put on “ready status.”