Photo by Brandon Anderson.

After doing her homework at the Southwest Neighborhood Library on Sunday evening, Taije Chambliss was shot twice. At 13, she was shielding an even younger child from the gunfire.

Taije was wounded along with another man, who may have been the intended target, on 3rd Street in Southwest. It was one of eight shootings in D.C. over the weekend—two of which were fatal and pushed this year’s homicide total thus far to the same number as all of 2014.

The 7th grader has been released from the hospital and is recovering from gunshot wounds to both her legs. Taije told WUSA9 that she was protecting an even younger child.

“I was covering up the little girl because she was too young to get shot,” she said.

According to a neighbor, a man ran up to the house and headed through the back door. Although there were girls playing out front, his pursuers fired anyway. “Kids can’t even come out here and play,” neighbor Angela Taylor told WUSA9.

Wise beyond her 13 years, Taije said today: “I want them to be caught because it can be your child next who gets shot and they may not live. For you to be that angry and bring out a gun and shoot someone or try to shoot someone…it’s sad. If you know that your child is wielding a gun around you need to sit them down and talk to them and give them a reality check because his gun violence is taking over this city.”

Neighbor says guy pushed past girls on steps to get away fr shooters, who fired, hitting Taije Chambliss, 13. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/I3AiZRqAlf

— Bruce Leshan (@BruceLeshan) August 31, 2015