{"id":24986,"date":"2024-03-19T02:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24986"},"modified":"2024-03-19T02:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:39:01","slug":"2-killed-5-others-wounded-in-dc-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24986","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 5 others wounded in DC shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Seven people were shot in an early morning shooting in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, leaving two killed and another five wounded, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)&nbsp;said&nbsp;its officers responded at the intersection of 7th and P Streets, Northwest, to reports of a shooting just past 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. They found two men with gunshot wounds who died at the scene as well as four victims who were injured on the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All four injured adults were transported to local hospitals, while another injured victim walked into a local hospital asking for treatment of a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police are still investigating the potential motive of the shooting. The police said in its press release that a preliminary investigation \u201csuggests that one or more suspects intentionally discharged a firearm at the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The police department is offering an award of up to $50,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe\u2019re asking anyone who may have any information related to this incident or may have witnessed it to contact the Metropolitan Police Department,\u201d Jeffrey Carroll, MPD executive assistant chief,&nbsp;said&nbsp;at an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept\/status\/1769287744101011793\"><u>early morning press conference<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4538263-2-killed-5-others-wounded-in-dc-shooting\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people were shot in an early morning shooting in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, leaving two killed and another five wounded, police said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)&nbsp;said&nbsp;its officers responded at the intersection of 7th and P Streets, Northwest, to reports of a shooting just past 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. They found two men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[27252,1530,1227],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-mpd","tag-shooting","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24989,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions\/24989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}