*According to news reports, one person is dead and 20 others were shot and injured after multiple started shooting at a block party overnight in Washington D.C.
DC police say at least three shooters opened fire from different locations at the gathering near the 3300 block of Dubois Place in Southeast at around 12:30am on Sunday.
The victim is Christopher Brown, a 17-year-old father-of-one, reports WUSA9.
11 of the 20 overall who were shot are women. At least seven of those hurt were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
One of those victims includes an off-duty 1st District Police officer who was shot and is currently struggling for her life.
As of Sunday morning, no arrests had been made and no further details have been offered by D.C. Police.
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Just spoke to the Grandmother of Christopher Brown, 17. She tells me he was shot and killed last night in SE DC after a block party turned deadly. Christopher leaves behind a 1-yr-old son, Elijah & a host of family & friends who are mourning. pic.twitter.com/Ic2Uw70O8F
— Megan Rivers (@MegMRivers) August 9, 2020
Here’s more via Daily Mail:
Witnesses say the shooting occurred during a block party or cook out that was taking place in the middle of the residential street late last night, with hundreds of people attending.
Many said the gunfire sounded as if it was being fired from an automatic weapon or more than one gun.
Local resident George Benton uploaded footage of the shooting’s aftermath. He said he had been inside his home when he heard ‘about 100 gun shots’ ring out.
Benton said that officials at the scene said as many as 15 people were shot, including children.
In an update posted this morning, Benton claimed he had been told by an officer at that eight different guns were reportedly used in the shooting.
The Sixth District has not yet responded to a DailyMail.com request for comment on the ages of the victims or the number of gunmen involved.
“It was terrible. You had quite a few people laying on the ground, people ducking under cars.” Resident who heard shots ring out here along 33rd st and Dubois Pl. SE lastnight says it happened at a party that happens every year but has never turned violent @WTOP pic.twitter.com/8DwtLQevF9
— Melissa Howell (@Mhowell003) August 9, 2020
D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said the off-duty officer who was shot is assigned to the 1st District and has been with the police department for a year. He said she is “fighting for her life.”
Of the others shot, all were adults except for another 17-year-old, according to Newsham, reports WTOP.
“What happened was it was some kind of dispute. Multiple weapons were produced and multiple shots were fired,” said Newsham during a news conference Sunday with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
He said there were at least three gunmen, who used handguns, shooting from three spots simultaneously. No motive was offered.
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