WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- A teenage boy was taken to the hospital after he was shot in Southeast D.C. on Saturday. According to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), shortly before 3 p.m., officers responded to the 1500 block of 18th St. for a shooting. There, they found the boy, conscious and breathing, with gunshot wounds. Former DC government employee to spend over a decade in prison for fatally shooting teen Medics took him to the hospital for treatment. Police noted that the shooting actually took place in the 2900 block of M St. This is about a six-minute drive from where officers found the boy. The investigation is ongoing.