Last night, two people died in separate incidents in D.C. and Montgomery County, MD last night. In downtown Silver Spring around 5:15 p.m., an armed man was shot and killed by a police officer when brandishing an icepick. Police report that an officer saw a dispute between two men when patrolling in his vehicle. One of the men yelled that the other man was armed with a knife, and when the officer ordered the man to drop the weapon the man refused, and the officer shot the man.

In Columbia Heights last night, 3 were shot and one killed following a shooting on the 3000 block of Sherman Avenue NW. Via Homicide Watch, MPD has confirmed that 18-year-old Cardozo High senior Lucki Pannell was the victim of the shooting. Jim Graham said in a statement that the shooting was a “brazen, mad thing.”