A 13-year-old boy killed in Northeast D.C. shooting last weekend may have been targeted, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Witnesses told detectives Ahmad Mims was killed for hitting the suspected shooter’s sister.
Ring camera video from the night Ahmad was killed shows two young males standing in the hallway of Ahmad’s apartment, apparently waiting for him. It also shows Ahmad walking out of the apartment and staring into the camera.
“They knocked on the door to ask him to come outside,” his grandmother, Monica Mims, told News4.
She said she doesn’t know who knocked on Ahmad’s door.
According to the search warrant affidavit, a witness told police a male dressed in black with a muscular build was seen dragging Ahmad from a house on Rosedale Street, where police found him Saturday. Nothing in the search warrant indicates the age of the person dragging the body.
“To, like, drag him out like a bag of trash, that just hurts me even more,” Mims said. “Like, a little boy that can think like that, to even drag someone outside after you shoot ‘em.”
She said Ahmad had been in a fight at school in recent weeks, but it’s unclear if police have connected the fight to his killing.
Police found two firearms and 12 cartridge casings in the house, the affidavit says.
They did not make any arrests.
Ahmad was a rising eighth grader at KIPP Northeast Charter School.
“He is such a sweet boy,” his grandmother said. “I really don’t like to say this, you know. I have 10 grandchildren, but he is one of my favorites. And he clings to me. He’s very sweet. He loves football, he loves video games, he loves going outside to play.”
She said she wants the person who shot Ahmad to spend the rest of their life in prison.
Ahmad’s family is trying to raise enough money for a funeral, she said.
