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Six shot and wounded, including a 5-year-old boy, in Northeast Washington, police say | Six shot and wounded, including a 5-year-old boy, in Northeast Washington, police say |
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Six people, including a small boy, were shot and wounded Friday evening in Northeast Washington when three armed men opened fire in a barber shop, the police said. | |
The child was grazed on a hand, and none of the others’ wounds were thought to be life-threatening, the police said. They included four men and a woman who is related to the boy, according to police. | |
The gunfire broke out shortly after 6 p.m. at Snap’s barber shop in the 6200 block of Dix Street NE. No motive was immediately known, D.C. police chief Peter Newsham said in a briefing at the scene. | |
“It looks like the victims in this case were in the barbershop getting their hair cut or with someone who was getting their hair cut,” Newsham said. | “It looks like the victims in this case were in the barbershop getting their hair cut or with someone who was getting their hair cut,” Newsham said. |
After the shooting, the gunmen fled in a fled in a silver minivan. | |
The chief said two victims went to a firehouse for help, apparently in nearby Prince George’s County. | |
“We had two walk- in shooting victims, one adult, one child,” said Jenifer Donelan, the spokeswoman for the Prince George’s fire and rescue service. The two went to a firehouse on Central Avenue. | |
Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman for the D.C. Fire and EMS department said D.C. EMS personnel took four to hospitals. | |
The 6200 block of Dix Street intersects Eastern Avenue NE, the border between the District and Prince George’s . | |
One of the wounded men was in surgery Friday night and in critical but stable condition, police said. | |
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