WASHINGTON—Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night time resulted in eight folks, together with a younger woman, struggling accidents, the Metropolitan Police Division stated.
There have been no fatalities within the two shootings, which police stated could possibly be associated as a result of they occurred in the identical space of the town in a short while body.
About 10 p.m. police responded to studies of pictures fired on Lebaum Avenue and located seven males who suffered gunshot wounds that weren’t life-threatening, Assistant Chief of Patrol Providers South Andre Wright stated in a information convention on the scene.
Many of the victims took themselves to hospitals, Wright stated.
“There was some chaos, clearly, due to the variety of victims and the family members,” he stated.
Whereas officers have been on Lebaum Avenue, police obtained a report of a capturing on 2nd Avenue, the place they discovered a 12-year-old woman who had suffered “a gunshot wound to her decrease extremities,” Wright stated, including that the damage was not life-threatening.
Police have been in search of a automobile described by witnesses on Lebaum Avenue as a black sedan, probably a Mercedes, from which shooters “drove by way of the block and indiscriminately fired upon” folks.
The 2 shootings have been believed to be related as a result of proximity of the scenes and the shut instances of the shootings, Wright stated, though a potential motive was not instantly recognized.
“It’s a gorgeous night time. There have been of us who have been hanging out right here and there have been of us who have been shifting about on the 2nd Avenue scene,” Wright stated. “And for some motive you will have some individuals who suppose that it was okay to fireplace a firearm at a number of people at two totally different scenes. And we’re not going to let that stand.”