Two men and a 4-year-old were injured in a shooting in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, D.C. police chief Robert Contee said during a news conference.
The shooting, Contee said, occurred between several people in the 100 block of Kennedy Street Northwest. When officers arrived about 6:30 p.m., he said, two people who were injured got into a Black car and made their way to Missouri Avenue.
All of the victims, including the child, appear to have non-life-threatening injuries, Contee said.
Police, Contee said, have taken one person believed to be involved in the incident into custody.
The 4-year-old, who Contee said police believe was taken to Children’s National Hospital by a family member, was an “unintended target,” he said.
“Quite honestly, this is the type of thing that you see when people recklessly use firearms in our streets,” Contee said. “A 4-year-old, unintended, who had nothing to do with this gets injured by someone else’s reckless behavior.”
Police are unsure of the exact number of shots that were fired and the number of people who were involved. However, Contee said, there doesn’t appear to be a threat to the community.
“A 4-year-old was shot today,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said. “We think that the injury is relatively minor, but that’s hard to say with a 4-year-old with a gunshot wound.”
Below is a map of where the shooting took place.
WTOP’s Scott Gelman contributed to this report.
