<br/><small><a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=2811+M+Street+Northwest,+Washington,+DC+20007-3712&aq=t&sll=38.905207,-77.057821&sspn=0.001181,0.001821&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2811+M+St+NW,+Washington,+District+of+Columbia,+20007&t=m&ll=38.905395,-77.057419&spn=0.013358,0.01708&z=14&iwloc=A” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger Map</a></small></div> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>The 17-year-old ward of the District who was shot in the head during the Halloween street party in Georgetown has died from his injuries, and a D.C. Council member is seeking to determine why the teen was out on the streets that night and not in city custody.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Tyronn Vincent Garner was one of five teenagers who were shot in attacks across the District during a bloody Halloween night. The other victims suffered relatively minor injuries. Garner was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and remained alive for a week. He was pronounced dead at 8:10 p.m. Monday, a D.C. police spokeswoman said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Police arrested 24-year-old man near the scene of the shooting at 2800 M St. NW, and charged him with carrying a pistol without a license. He has not been charged in the shooting.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Multiple sources confirmed to The Washington Examiner that the boy had been in the custody of the District’s troubled <a href=”http://dyrs.dc.gov/DC/DYRS/”>Department of Youth Rehabilitative Services</a> since the spring. Two months ago, D.C. Superior Court Judge Milton C. Lee Jr. had recommended that the youth be sent to a residential treatment facility in Pennsylvania to receive specific services that he could not otherwise receive.</span></p> <table style=”float: right; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: aliceblue; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0pt; width: 290px; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; border: 1px solid #efe1ab; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #cccccc;” border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″><tbody><tr style=”font-size:14px;line-height:15px;color:darkred;”><td><strong>Examiner Archive</strong></td></tr><tr style=”font-size:12px;”><td><li><a href=”http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime-punishment/2011/11/teen-shot-georgtown-was-ward-city”>Teen shot in Georgtown was ward of city (11-2-11)</a></li></td></tr><tr style=”font-size:12px;”><td><li><a href=”http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime-punishment/2011/10/man-charged-cabbie-murder-was-escapee-dc-youth-home”>Man charged with cabbie murder was escapee from D.C. youth home (10-24-11)</a></li></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class=”BodyCopy”>The facility in Erie, Pa., advertises that it specializes in drug- and alcohol-abuse treatment.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>However, Lee vacated the commitment order on Sept. 30 when he learned that DYRS had not transferred the boy to the out-of-state facility, and the boy instead was still being held at New Beginnings. That facility in Laurel houses some of the District’s most violent youth offenders.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Sources said he was allowed to go home instead.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Garner’s family on Tuesday told WJLA-TV that the teen told them he wanted to go to the Pennsylvania facility, but that he missed the bus and it left without him.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Christopher Shorter, of DYRS, has said that the District’s confidentiality law prohibits him from commenting on individual cases.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>D.C. Councilman Jim Graham, chairman of the committee that has oversight of DYRS, said he has requested the transcripts of Garner’s files and court hearings of the commitment and the revocation of commitment to determine why Garner wasn’t sent to Pennsylvania and why he was allowed to return to his family. The Superior Court has approved his request, he said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>”Somebody’s dead today that, had this been handled differently, might be alive,” Graham said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Garner could have been sent to the District’s youth service center under the supervision of the Superior Court, Graham said. Instead, he was placed on probation an and sent home, and a month later he was mortally wounded, Graham said.</span></p> <p><span class=”EndEmailTag” style=”font-style:italic;”><em><a href=” mailto:[email protected] “>[email protected]</a></em></span></p>
