Police say three adult men and a teenage girl were injured in the shooting just after 6 p.m. in Southeast D.C. News4’s Arielle Hixon reports.
Four people, including a teenage girl, were injured in a shooting in the Fairlawn neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on Sunday, police said. The investigation took a chaotic turn when one of the officers called to the scene crashed, leaving a police vehicle totaled.
Two men with gunshot wounds were found about 6:15 p.m. when police responded to a shooting on Minnesota Avenue SE, near Boone Elementary School in the Fairlawn neighborhood.
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WATCH HEREAs police investigated, they connected the teen girl and another man at a hospital to the same shooting, D.C. police told News4.
Footage from the scene showed over 80 evidence markers on the street.
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SIGN UP While the investigation continued, a police officer driving to the scene of the shooting was involved in a car crash with two other cars. That officer was injured in the crash. Video from the scene shows doors had been ripped off the driver's side.
None of the people injured have life-threatening injuries, police said.
The details of what led to the shooting are not yet clear. There is also not yet a clear cause of the car crash.
