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The nation’s capital saw one of its most violent weekends of the year after 12 people were shot across the city over the span of just nine hours, police said.

The violence in Washington, D.C., began on Friday at around 5:30 p.m., after a teenage girl was shot on southeast Yuma Street, FOX 5 reported . Just 15 minutes later, a teenage boy was reportedly struck by a bullet on 50th Street.

Two hours later, a man was shot on 16th Street in the northwest area of the city.

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At 8:18 p.m., a 5-year-old boy’s face was grazed by a bullet while on Savannah Terrace in the southeast, according to FOX 5.

The violence continued just minutes later, when three men, one woman

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