Three adults and a minor were injured in a shooting that occurred Friday near a school in northwest Washington, DC, police said, while searching for one or more suspects.
A man and woman were found near the Edmund Burke School and taken to hospital in critical but stable condition, and a minor suffered minor gunshot wounds, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Stuart Emerman. A fourth person, in his 60s, who was later found, received immediate treatment.
Police forces are on duty across the neighborhood in search of an unidentified suspect, he said, adding that several people who were seen fleeing the scene were briefly detained by officers at the scene before they were arrested. “We are looking for one or more suspects. We have no motive at this time,” Stuart Emerman told reporters. “We don’t know all the details of what happened. But we continue to ask people to stay away from the area while we continue our investigation.”
A minute
A witness told local television that he heard gunshots for about a minute and saw several people take cover behind cars that pointed to a balcony where the shots appeared to have come. According to Washington, DC police, the shooting took place near Connecticut Avenue in the northwest of the city. The upscale neighborhood is also home to several embassies, the Howard University School of Law and the Van Ness campus of the University of the District of Columbia, which said on its Twitter account that it was ordered to remain on the facility’s premises for security reasons.
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