D.C. police investigating six shootings Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning
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Version 0 of 1. Six people were shot and wounded — one of them critically — in Southeast Washington on Monday afternoon and early Tuesday, according to D.C. police. Authorities said they are investigating, and it was not immediately clear if any of the shootings were related. The gunfire came in two waves — between 3:15 and 4:20 p.m. on Monday and between midnight and 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. No arrests were reported in any of the cases. The first shooting occurred about 3:15 p.m. in the 3100 block of Knox Terrace SE, just off Alabama Avenue and steps from the 7th District police station. Police reported a juvenile was shot in the legs. About one hour and one-half mile away, police said a man was shot in the Langston Terrace neighborhood. It occurred in the 2700 block of Langston Place SE. A D.C. police spokesman said homicide detectives had been ordered to the scene and that the victim was reported to be unconscious at the scene. Police said on Tuesday that he remained alive at an area hospital. [Deadly violence has become all too common in one D.C. neighborhood] Langston Terrace is a small neighborhood off Alabama Avenue where violence erupted last year, prompting D.C. police to flood its streets with dozens of officers for more than a week. About 4:40 p.m, D.C. police reported a third shooting in the 7th District patrol area — this one in the 4300 block of Fourth Street SE, about 2.5 miles from the other shootings, just off I-295 and across from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Police said a man who was shot in the third incident was conscious and breathing, but they had no further information. On Tuesday, police said a man was shot about 12:02 a.m. in the 4700 block of South Capital Street SE. About one half hour later, police said a man was shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Howard Street, in Anacostia, and about the same time and one mile away, a woman was shot in the 2300 block of Green Street SE. Police said the three victims from Tuesday suffered what appear to be non-life threatening injuries. |