DC police searching for gunman in fatal shooting

A man is dead and another is in the hospital after a shooting in Southeast D.C. on Friday.

The D.C. police said the shooting happened around 1:40 p.m. on Hillside Road, between 46th Street and Benning Road and about a quarter-mile from the Maryland border.

Police are still looking for the shooter, who they say was last seen on foot on Ridge Road, heading northwest toward the Ridge Road Community Center.

This is a developing story. Stay with WTOP for the latest. 

Thomas Robertson

Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.

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