DC Reporter Dead After Being Used A Human Shield

Charnice Milton

27-year-old Charnice Milton, 27, was found suffering from a gunshot wound in the 2700 block of Good Hope Road in DC-Southeast around 9:40 p.m. She was taken to the hospital where she died, according to myfoxdc.com.

Milton worked just across the street for Capital Community News since 2012. The Southeast resident covered community issues.  Previously, she worked as a reporter for CCN.

Milton was not the shooter's intended target, D.C. police said.

Her family is asking for those responsible to do the right thing and turn themselves in.

It is a horrific detail for any parent to cope with in the death of their child. Ken McClendon and Milton's mother, Francine, are devastated about the loss of their beautiful daughter.

“We miss our daughter,” said Francine. “We hurt that she is no longer with us it. But we also know that she is at a peaceful place.”

They choose to focus on what their daughter accomplished in spite of obstacles she faced as a child.

“She had her own condition of Asperger's and it was presumed because of her special condition, she would never excel and never achieve any great feat,” said Milton's father. “Yet watching our daughter walk across the stage at Bishop McNamara High School with honors, then going to Ball State and graduating with honors, then graduating at Syracuse with honors, and then staying here in Southeast Washington D.C., when she could have gone anywhere.”