4 killed in separate shootings in DC Friday

Police are investigating three separate fatal shootings in Northeast D.C. and another in Northwest D.C. on Friday night.

The first happened around 5 p.m. A woman was shot and killed on Benning Road and the 700 block of 21st Street. Police are looking for a gray vehicle with tinted windows.

Police identified the woman as 45-year-old Tamika Jones, of Northeast D.C.

An hour later, a man was shot and killed on the 4900 block of North Capitol Street near Fort Totten.

Police are looking for a man between 5 feet, 8 inches to 6 feet, with a thin build and had on a long, black hooded sweater and dark blue skinny jeans. The man had a black handgun and was last seen westbound on Farragut Place NE.

The third shooting happened after 7:30 p.m. near South Dakota Avenue and Newton Street, where police found a man shot inside a vehicle. The man, identified as 19-year-old Everett Harris, of Southeast D.C., was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police are looking for a burgundy Ford Taurus that had four occupants last seen heading eastbound on Newton Street NE.

Around 6:20 p.m., police responded to a call about an unconscious person inside a hotel room not far from Washington Circle on New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest.

By the time first responders got to the scene, 40-year-old William Charles Dismuke had already died from a gunshot wound.

Anyone with information on the shootings should call D.C. police at 202-727-9099.

Below are the areas where the incidents happened.

WTOP’s Zeke Hartner and Abigail Constantino contributed to this report. 

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