Washington DC - Washington DC's mayor has revealed that the suspect who shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake over the weekend was a government employee.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser reportedly shared the bombshell on Wednesday, but refused to reveal the identity of the shooter or the department they work for.

"It's a horrible situation," Bowser said. "We have a 13-year-old that died, and we don't have all of the facts. And the people who are responsible for gathering the facts and making charging decisions are doing it just as fast as possible."

According to NBC Washington, Blake, a student at Brookland Middle School, was shot by the man at the 1000 block of Quincy Street NE in the Brookland neighborhood of DC early Saturday morning around 4 AM.

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The man believed he saw someone "tampering with a vehicle," and ventured from his home wielding a legally registered gun to investigate, DC police said in a statement about how an "interaction" between the two went down.

He eventually fired multiple shots at the child and then called police to the scene, where he was found performing CPR on Blake as officers arrived.

Blake was unarmed.

During a news conference on Tuesday, DC police chief Robert Contee tried to squash the spreading of misinformation about the case.

He revealed that the shooter was not a former law enforcement or public safety worker, contrary to a theory spread online, and the shooter is a Black man, which he believes disputes theories of a racial element being involved in the shooting. Officials confirmed he has been put on administrative leave.

The local community has expressed outrage, demanding that the shooter be arrested and publicly identified.

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Blake's grandfather Sean Long has also come forward, requesting accountability. Long described his grandson as a "nice, friendly little guy who liked to have fun," and shared that what bothered him most about Karon's death is that "he didn’t get a chance to grow up."

Washington DC council member Christina Henderson perfectly echoed public sentiment in a Twitter post, writing, "Property is not greater than life. Karon should be alive today."