Nine people were wounded in a shooting in Northeast Washington’s Deanwood neighborhood early Wednesday while celebrating July Fourth, D.C. police said. Officials described the gunfire, which struck a 9-year-old boy and a 17-year-old, as targeted.
Nine people were wounded in a shooting in Northeast Washington’s Deanwood neighborhood early Wednesday while celebrating July Fourth, D.C. police said.
One of those shot was a 9-year-old boy, a D.C. police official said. A second was 17. All wounds were said to be non-life-threatening, though a police spokesman said the boy was seriously injured. Police had earlier said the boy was 7.The gunfire broke out shortly before 1 a.m. in the 4700 block of Meade Street NE, police said. It is two blocks from the Deanwood Recreation Center.
A dark-colored SUV drove down the street and stopped, and shots were fired from it “in the direction” of people celebrating the Fourth of July, said Leslie Parsons, an assistant D.C. police chief. He described the gunfire as targeted.Police said some victims were taken to hospitals by the fire department and that others reached hospitals by private means.The number of victims appeared to be among the largest in a single shooting in the District in months.
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