{"id":26580,"date":"2024-04-28T04:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26580"},"modified":"2024-04-28T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:12:22","slug":"a-suspect-is-in-custody-after-5-people-were-shot-in-the-nations-capital-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26580","title":{"rendered":"A suspect is in custody after 5 people were shot in the nation&#8217;s capital, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON &#8212;&nbsp;Sixc people were shot late Friday outside a nightclub in the nation\u2019s capital, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said officers were called after a dispute started inside the nightclub and \u201cspilled into the street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The six people who were shot had non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police arrested a suspect nearby and recovered a firearm, Kyle said. Police did not immediately provide additional details about the suspect or what prompted the dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The District of Columbia is struggling with a sharp increase in violent crime, which rose 39% in 2023. That was largely fueled by a 35% jump in homicides while carjackings nearly doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/suspect-custody-after-5-people-shot-club-nations-109715345\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212;&nbsp;Sixc people were shot late Friday outside a nightclub in the nation\u2019s capital, police said. The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said officers were called after a dispute started inside the nightclub and \u201cspilled into the street.\u201d The six people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[10312,2632,28087,27556,1237,3287,1303],"class_list":["post-26580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-5-people","tag-capital","tag-occurred","tag-one","tag-police","tag-shooting-incident","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26580","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=26580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26582,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26580\/revisions\/26582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}