Two police officers wounded in Central Washington D.C. shooting

  24 February 2017    Read: 1391
Two police officers wounded in Central Washington D.C. shooting
Two police officers were wounded in central Washington shooting, acting D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham told reporters.
Two uniformed police officers were wounded in a shooting in central Washington, acting D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham told reporters.

"The injuries appear to be non-life threatening. We have a suspect with recent gunshot wounds … We do have a weapon recovered from the scene which we believe to be the suspect’s," he said.

​Sources told NBC News4 that the attacker had been shot and killed.

Police released only few details of the incident. The shooting occurred in Morse Street at about 10:40 p.m. local time on Thursday, Newsham said, adding it was not known if there had been a foot pursuit.

A number of shootings had taken place across the city in the past few days, the officer admitted, and the D.C. Police Department had been responding to them.

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