{"id":635263,"date":"2026-05-10T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:24:16","slug":"dc-teen-dies-after-tenleytown-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635263\/","title":{"rendered":"DC teen dies after Tenleytown shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager died a day after police found him suffering from a gunshot wound in an alley on Thursday. Police confirmed the death Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A teenager who suffered a gunshot wound in a D.C. alley earlier this week has died, police confirmed Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>D.C. police identified the individual as 18-year-old Brady Flowers, Jr., of Southwest D.C. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Flowers suffered fatal injuries in a shooting that happened around 4:30 p.m. Thursday on the 4500 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW in the Tenleytown neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they had found the teenager in an alley behind an establishment after being alerted to a shooting in the area.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. police said that anyone with information about the shooting should take no action but should call police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department\u2019s TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police Department is currently offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2026 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenager died a day after police found him suffering from a gunshot wound in an alley on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[274381,4,450,84955,451,3,274382,220915,252243,452,453,17988,5832],"class_list":["post-635263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-brady-flowers-jr","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dc-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-second-district","tag-teen-shot","tag-tenleytown","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-valerie-bonk","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}