One continues to battle for life, with a gunshot wound to the head. It continues to be a difficult year for some children in the nation's capital. Though none of the shootings occurred in the schools, students are left coping with the death of their peers. As in the rest of the nation, violent crime has been falling in D.C., but the problem of gun violence remains. This is, however, a problem on a national scale.
Bridges says there are no easy answers.
Some of those killed are caught up in the drug trade. For those students left behind he has a message. It does not work. You are going to pay. You're going to jail, you're going to be shot, you're going to be killed.