Photos have been released after four people were found with gunshot wounds near Nationals park after a game between Washington Nationals and rival New York Mets and TPS reports that two of the victims were teenagers, including a 16-year-old girl.
According to The Washington Post, police responded to a call at O Street and Half Street in Southwest as there were three calls for emergency medical services in the area that stretched from the Navy Yard Metro Station to Potomac Avenue SE.
All victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. “D.C. police said a 16-year-old girl was found after being shot in the 100 block of P Street SW. The fire department told WTOP early Sunday morning that she was seriously injured but expected to be okay.
A man was found shot on Potomac Ave. with a graze wound, according to police. Two others, a man and a 17-year-old boy, were injured near the Navy Yard Metro Station”.
Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the suspects accused of shooting those four people.
Violence is ALL THE WAY up in the area.
It was not immediately clear whether any of the victims Saturday had attended the Nationals game with the New York Mets, which ended about 10:15 p.m., roughly 45 minutes before the gunfire erupted about a third of a mile from the ballpark. Attendance at the home game, the third of the season, was listed at 21,369 people.
“We have had a lot of issues lately, a lot of crime uptick, and residents want to know what is going on,” said Edward Daniels, a member of the D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission who represents the ballpark area. While the crime increase has ranged “from carjackings to people grabbing things off tables at restaurants,” Daniels said, “the shootings have definitely been the most problematic.”
Police and federal agents last month charged two people in the sale of a deadly batch of fentanyl that authorities said targeted the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood near the stadium in January, causing nine overdose fatalities.
Police arrest two people in sale of fentanyl that led to nine deaths
Citing the gunfire during a Nationals game last summer and “now this,” Daniels said, “the residents are just tired of these people being on the street, as am I.” He said there is an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting Monday night, “and the D.C. police will be in that meeting, so we’ll be able to ask them what’s being done.”
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