Good morning, Washington. It’s Friday again, which is awesome. Much less awesome is the preponderance of headlines today involving young teens who have been shot or killed in the last month. There actually aren’t really many more stories to choose from for the roundup this morning. Just last night a 15-year-old was killed in Southeast, and WJLA has an interview with 13-year-old Quashawn Brown, who is now home from the hospital after having been shot near her Southeast apartment.

Over at both the Post and the AP, you’ll find stories about how U.S. marshals arrested two fugitive gang members in Houston yesterday who are suspects in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Montgomery County bus earlier this month. In an ironic twist, the two suspects, Gilmar Romero, 20, and Mario Milan-Canales, 30, were arrested on a city bus. The two men are affiliated with the MS-13 gang.

WJLA Declares Hookah Bars are the ‘New Starbucks’: This is obviously a pretty silly story, but we needed something a little lighter in this spot and it’s sort of a slow morning. Warning, teens! Smoking hookah is bad for you, the same way smoking cigarettes is. Duh.

Briefly Noted: Oxon Hill man fatally shot at stop light … D.C. jurors set to decide the fate of city clerk charged with bribery … Inner Loop lanes reopen after tractor trailers collide.

This Day in DCist: In 2006, we said goodbye to Staccato, and in 2005, we were still sweating who would become the new owner of the Nationals.

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