Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night time resulted in eight individuals, together with a younger woman, struggling accidents, the Metropolitan Police Department stated.

There had been no fatalities within the two shootings, which police stated could possibly be associated as a result of they occurred in the identical space of the town in a short while body.

About 10 p.m. police responded to stories of pictures fired on Lebaum Street and located seven males who suffered gunshot wounds that weren't life-threatening, Assistant Chief of Patrol Services South Andre Wright stated in a information convention on the scene.

Most of the victims took themselves to hospitals, Wright stated.

“There was some chaos, obviously, because of the number of victims and the loved ones,” he stated.

While officers had been on Lebaum Street, police obtained a report of a taking pictures on 2nd Street, the place they discovered a 12-year-old woman who had suffered “a gunshot wound to her lower extremities,” Wright stated, including that the harm was not life-threatening.

Police had been on the lookout for a automotive described by witnesses on Lebaum Street as a black sedan, presumably a Mercedes, from which shooters “drove through the block and indiscriminately fired upon” individuals.

The two shootings had been believed to be linked because of the proximity of the scenes and the shut occasions of the shootings, Wright stated, though a doable motive was not instantly identified.

“It’s a beautiful night. There were folks who were hanging out here and there were folks who were moving about on the 2nd Street scene,” Wright stated. “And for some reason you have some people who think that it was okay to fire a firearm at multiple individuals at two different scenes. And we’re not going to let that stand.”

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