Northeast Washington

A D.C. officer shot a suspect who confronted him with a gun Friday night in Northeast, police say. The off-duty officer was in the 4200 block of Minnesota Avenue NE just after 11 p.m. when police say 17 year-old Cornell Smith confronted him. Smith and the officer exchanged gunfire before the suspect ran off, police said. The officer was not…

A D.C. man was charged in federal court Friday after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a Metropolitan Police Department officer in a squad car. Just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, an officer was parking an unmarked police cruiser in front of the Sixth District Police Station in the 5000 block of Hayes Street NE when Ashton Nesmith, 26, approached…

Her 14th birthday arrived Tuesday, but Relisha Rudd remains missing.

Water shot 15 feet in the air and gushed onto a street in Northeast D.C. Monday afternoon.

A man died in a hail of bullets on Rhode Island Avenue NE on Saturday. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to a D.C. leader who says it’s going to take collective outrage to stop senseless gun violence.

A woman was killed and two others were injured during a shooting inside a home in Northeast D.C. Saturday morning, police say. Officers found a man suffering from gunshot and stab wounds across the street from the apartment in the 1700 block of Capitol Avenue NE when they arrived about 5:15 a.m., police said. While speaking with him, officers heard...

A man says a neighbor stabbed him in the face, shot him and killed his girlfriend in an apartment in Northeast D.C. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Police confirmed one woman is dead in a shooting on Capitol Avenue in Northeast DC. Two other people are in serious condition. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Acting on new information, D.C. police recently resumed the search for missing child Relisha Rudd, focusing on underground tunnels at the now-closed homeless shelter where she lived.

As we approach the holidays, a D.C. church is helping families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. News4’s Darcy Spencer takes us inside the service at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, where some of the city’s youngest murder victims were remembered.

Relisha Rudd was just 8 years old when she disappeared from the D.C. homeless shelter where she lived with her mother and siblings. She was last seen March 1, 2014 at a Northeast D.C. motel with 51-year-old Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the D.C. General homeless shelter.

D.C. police spent days searching a network of tunnels for evidence of Relisha Rudd, the 8-year-old girl who went missing in 2014. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Five years after Relisha Rudd was last seen, D.C. police said they’ve never given up their attempt to find her.

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A man convicted of raping and killing a North Carolina artist who was found bound and stabbed to death inside a row house in Northeast Washington in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison.

A chase between two shooting suspects led to a crash that left some Northeast D.C. residents without power. A school was also put on lockdown when a bullet flew through a classroom window. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

A D.C. mother was grazed by a stray bullet as she sat around the kitchen table with her family Thursday night. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

Higher temperatures can also mean higher electricity use. News4’s Chris Gordon shares tips by Pepco on how to save energy and beat the heat.

Nearly two months after police found a man shot to death inside a car that was set on fire, they still don’t know who did it. Now they’re going door to door handing out flyers and hoping neighbors can lead them to a suspect. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.