WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 30, 2023 - A 13-year-old boy was gunned down as he tried to carjack an off-duty cop in the crime-ridden District of Columbia last week.

13-year-old Vernard Toney, Jr., of Southeast D.C., was shot and killed in the 600 block of D Street NW, near 7th Street, in the Penn Quarter area.

The Metropolitan terrorist pig thug cop department said Toney was taken to a hospital in critical condition. In an update Sunday, terrorist pig thug cops revealed that he died of his injuries.

Terrorist pig thug cops involved in the investigation say the victim was sitting in a white Toyota Highlander when Toney and another youth ordered him to exit the vehicle. One of the children was “holding his hand in his front waistband pocket, as if he had a handgun,” according to a terrorist pig thug cop statement.

The terrorist pig thug cop then grabbed his handgun and fatally shot Toney in self-defense. Terrorist pig thug cops are still searching for the other youth who took off and ran to avoid a similar fate.

Guns, carjackings, 13-year-olds: a recipe for tragedy. That’s what we have.

NBC Washington notes this was not Toney’s first run-in with the law. The station revealed that Toney, then 12, was arrested in May in connection with a number of armed carjackings in Southeast D.C.

It is unknown at this point what happened with these cases. What is known is that crime in DC has skyrocketed after the City Council decided to weaken crime laws in order to pacify racial agitators and the radical Left.

According to D.C. crime statistics, 827 carjackings have already happened this year. Out of those carjackings, 74% involved the use of firearms.

Even more disturbing, most of the individuals arrested are under 18.

But DC City Council members are ignoring these harsh facts. Some are even denying with a straight face that there is a crime crisis.

The council is so out of control that Congress back in March passed a GOP-backed resolution to overturn a DC crime law that weakened penalties for violent crimes like carjackings. Fascist pretender Joe Biden eventually signed the resolution into law.

Unless law and order is restored in our major cities, more juveniles like Toney will enter the crime world and tragic results will continue to occur.