Washington, DC, Shootings Raise Deaths by Gun Violence in the US to 10,745 and Injuries to 40,605, in 2019 So Far

September 20, 2019


Site of a shooting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19, 2019

One dead, eight others injured in two shootings in the District late Thursday, police say

By Clarence Williams

Washington Post, September 20, 2019

Nine people were shot, including one fatally, in two incidents late Thursday in Washington, D.C. police said.

In the first shooting, one man was killed and five other adults were wounded in the courtyard of an apartment complex in the 1300 block of Columbia Road NW in Columbia Heights, said Cmdr. Stuart Emerman of the 3rd District. The shooting was reported about 10:05 p.m.

Five of the victims were men and one was a woman, police said.

Emerman said the surviving victims had injuries ranging from non-life-threatening to critical.

D.C. police were searching for two “males armed with AK style rifle,” last seen in the rear of the complex, according to a tweet sent out by the department just after midnight. Authorities said they’re looking for a light-colored Nissan sedan with an “unknown tag” number that’s believed to be involved.

Police are not yet sure what led to the shooting and are trying to gather surveillance video from the area.

The second shooting was reported about 10:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Rhode Island NE. Three people were shot, including one man who was unconscious and not breathing, said Officer Sean Hickman.

D.C. police and fire department responded to the report of a shooting just after 10 pm on Columbia Heights. The two other victims of that shooting, a man and a woman, were both conscious and breathing, police said.

Police said it was unclear whether the two shootings were connected.

D.C. Council Member Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1) issued a statement on Twitter after the Columbia Heights shooting. “It is beyond time to stop the epidemic of gun violence in this country, and I will not stand by while the residents of Columbia Heights are again visited by the horrible specter of violence,” she wrote.

1 dead, 5 hurt in shooting in Washington, D.C.

By Phil Helsel

NBC News, September 20, 2019

Five adult men and a woman were shot, and one of the men died. Police tweeted they were looking for a car with two males armed with an "AK style" rifle.

One person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting in a Washington, D.C., apartment complex courtyard Thursday night, police said. Officials said they were looking for a car with two males armed with an "AK style" rifle.

Officers found six people — all adults, five men and one woman — with gunshot wounds when they responded to a shooting call about 10 p.m. on Columbia Road Northwest. One of those victims, a man, died, Stuart Emerman, commander of the police department's third district, told reporters.

A motive is under investigation. Emerman said that investigators were getting various information from witnesses and that a drive-by shooting had not been ruled.

"Our detectives are continuing to interview individuals up here on the scene, as well as review camera footage we can find from the neighborhood," Emerman said.

The five injured people suffered gunshot wounds that ranged from non-critical to critical and were taken to area hospitals where they were being treated Thursday night, Emerman said.

Police tweeted that they were looking for a light-colored Nissan sedan with two males inside armed with an AK-style rifle, which was last seen where the shooting occurred.

Residents reportedly heard what sounded like rapid gunfire, and Emerson said that there are multiple shell casings at the scene.

About an hour later after the fatal shooting, three people were injured in a shooting about three miles away on Rhode Island Avenue Northeast, NBC Washington reported, citing police. That shooting left one man unconscious and not breathing, and second man and a woman were both conscious and breathing, the station reported.

Emerman said police always investigate whether nearby shootings are related, but said he did not have any information about the second shooting.

***

2019

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

***

Share the link of this article with your facebook friends

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.