Federal prosecutors dropped charges in late March against Eugene Huff, 18, who was accused of shooting a fellow student outside Cardozo Senior High School, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, told the Post they decided to drop the charges due to a lack of evidence.
Huff was 17 when he was arrested and charged as an adult on charges of assault with intent to murder after a 16-year-old student accused Huff of shooting him in the leg on Sept. 21, 2006. The accuser told police Huff shot him after they had gotten into an argument over a girl, according to the Post.
Huff, who was a junior at Cardozo at the time and played on the school's basketball team, had been held without bond since he turned himself into police the day after the shooting allegedly occurred. Huff was supposed to go on trial in D.C. Superior Court last week, the Post reported.
