Police Pursue Vehicle in D.C. After Shots Fired at Off-Duty Officer

D.C. police pursued a vehicle after shots were fired at an off-duty officer Wednesday morning.

The off-duty officer in a private car saw a Mercedes being driven erratically in the Eckington neighborhood of northeast D.C., before 10 a.m. He called it in and started to follow the Mercedes.

The Mercedes stopped, and someone got out and fired about a half dozen shots before the car sped away.

A police helicopter tracked the Mercedes to the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Northwest, where on W Street the passenger got out of the Mercedes in an alley, police said. An officer fired his weapon as police approached the vehicle. No one was hit, but police took a man into custody.

Police said they recovered a gun from the path of the car.

The helicopter then tracked the Mercedes to LeDroit Park in Northwest, where on Fifth Street the driver tried to elude police but crashed into a parked car. The driver tried to run away but didn't get far. A witness told News4 the driver tried to get inside a pest control truck but was apprehended.

Edward Darnell Bolling Jr. of Sacramento, California, was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, possession with intent to distribute, fleeing and eluding, and leaving after colliding, police said.