A 17-year-old girl hid a baby under acar before she was gunned down as drive-by shooters fired into a crowd of teens in Southeast Washington on Thursday night, D.C. police said.

The gunmen drove up in a stolen car and began firing into a crowd of teenagers outside 4639 Benning Road SE at about 11:35 p.m., killing 17-year-old Cynthia Gray, who was holding a friend’s 7-month-old baby, and wounding three other teenagers, said Capt. C.V. Morris, head of the violent crimes unit.

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