Nine people were injured including a 9-year-old and a 17-year-old – in a shooting early Wednesday that happened as the victims were celebrating the Fourth of July in the nation’s capital, police said.
All nine had non-life-threatening injuries after the shooting near Meade Street in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons said.
The shots were fired from a dark-colored SUV that had been going down Meade Street, Parsons said in a video statement on Twitter.“As it drove through the street, it stopped,” and at least one person from the vehicle “fired shots in the direction of some of our residents that were outside just celebrating the Fourth of July,” Parsons said. “It appears that the shooting was targeted towards those residents and victims that were struck.”
Police were alerted to the shooting shortly before 1 a.m., Parsons said. While Parsons said people were shot, he didn’t say whether all nine of the injured suffered gunshot wounds.Several victims taken to hospitals by first responders, and others went to hospitals on their own, he said.The shooting happened just blocks from the Maryland state line and roughly 5 miles from the U.S. Capitol, police said.