D.C. police on Monday said a man was shot dead and three other adults were hit by gunfire after a shooting erupted in Northeast.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Andre Wright said the deadly shooting occurred outside of a market around noon on the 1200 block of Mount Olivet Road Northeast.
The chief said a black sedan pulled up to the location, and three suspects — all armed and dressed in dark clothing — opened fire on the victims.
Police said officers found three men suffering from gunshot wounds at the scene.
Authorities pronounced one of the men dead at the scene. His identity wasn’t immediately revealed.
The other two were rushed to a hospital. Police said a woman believed to have been outside the market during the shooting also sought treatment afterward.
An alert said police are looking for a skinny, dark-skinned Black male in connection to the shooting. He is described as standing 5-foot-3 and was last seen wearing all-black clothing while heading south on Mount Olivet Road NE.
In the two hours before the market was sprayed with deadly gunfire, Chief Wright said two separate shootings took place on nearby Benning Road Northeast.
One person was wounded in a shooting on 1700 block of Benning NE around 10 a.m., and two others were injured in another shooting around 11:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of the same road.
The two sites are each just over a mile from the Mount Olivet Road shooting.
Chief Wright said MPD is investigating whether the shootings are connected.
“The fact that the two shootings happened on Benning Road, and then this shooting happened here, they’re not too far from each other,” he said. “And again, we’re investigating them each individually, and if there’s a nexus between the three, we’ll update the community.”
The slaying Monday afternoon would count as the District’s 74th so far this year, just one less homicide than the 75 recorded at this point in 2024.
Violent crime overall is down 22% in the District in the past year, with significant drops in shootings, robberies and carjackings.
