Shooting at 14th and W Streets NW

An adult man was shot at around 11:35 p.m. last night in an incident police are preliminarily describing as "not a random attack." He is expected to survive, according to an early report from the Third District. While Fourteenth Street NW is posh, that intersection -- located uncomfortably close to this writer's home -- seems remarkably resistant to the themed restaurants and fantasy furniture stores that have taken root elsewhere along the corridor, featuring instead a sketch gas station, a spanking new CVS that's already been robbed once, and a carryout place that attracts lowlifes who harass the women who walk by.