Safe Passage workers helped schoolchildren with backpacks around the crime scene.



Stephen Fabiyi, principal of Metcalfe Elementary Community Academy, which is about a block from the shooting, coordinated with the Safe Passage workers how his students would get to class. There are about 400 children who attend the school, which is visible from the crime scene.



"When we have children who have to walk by a dead body, that's a concern for me," he said.



The school planned to play uplifting music at the beginning of the day and was trying to find out if any students were related to the person who was shot.



He said students have been curious about what happened, but he anticipates some might not want to delve into it too deeply.



"When an issue this fresh happens, they try to avoid the topic," he said.



A woman, who did not want to be identified, said she heard three or four gunshots in the neighborhood. She was half asleep and thought the noise was coming from her television. It wasn't until after she heard sirens that she realized something happened.



"But that's what it was," she said. "It was this."