One person was struck in the leg after gunfire broke out near the Kiss & Ride parking lot near the Rockville Metrorail Station, NBC4 reports. Metro Transit Police reported the shooting about 3 p.m. more ›

If prosecutors get their way, the five men found guilty yesterday of leading the 2010 South Capitol Street shooting that left five people dead won't ever see the outside of a prison cell. more ›

D.C. Council Kwame Brown went shootin' last week, and he was pretty good at it. more ›

Prince George's Police announced today that charges will be filed in the shocking death yesterday of a six-year-old boy in Clinton, Md., who died after he accidentally shot himself with a gun he found at home. more ›

D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown is going shootin'. more ›

Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday. more ›

No joke. Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's new YouTube video uses the catapulting and shooting of a cute, fluffy rabbit as a metaphor for the federal tax code. WTF? more ›

Angered by the shocking death last month of a black teenager in Florida and upset with the statute that the shooter invoked to avoid prosecution, more than 1,000 people flooded the area around the John A. Wilson Building on Saturday afternoon in a call for justice. more ›

President Obama made his first public comments on the death of Sanford, Fla. teenager Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed February 26 by a neighborhood watch patrolman acting under Florida's "Stand Your Ground Law." more ›

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who gunned down 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month in Sanford, Fla., grew up not too far from D.C. His former neighbors were shocked to hear about what he did. more ›

Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. more ›

Galvanized by recent anti-gay hate crimes, several hundred activists are planning to a rally and march tonight in support of the victims. About 600 people so far have signed up on the event's Facebook page. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman. more ›

The shooting of a man at the Columbia Heights IHOP early Sunday and an assault on an individual Monday in Park View are being investigated as anti-gay hate crimes. But an assault Monday on a transgender woman is not currently being investigated as a hate crime. more ›

D.C. police are still looking for two people in connection to an early morning shooting at the Columbia Heights IHOP on Sunday that left a man injured, writes WJLA. more ›

Prince of Petworth reports that a man was robbed and shot at while walking on the multi-use Metropolitan Branch Trial in Northeast yesterday. more ›

WUSA9 is reporting that three people were shot near Ballou High School in the Congress Heights section of Southeast D.C. this morning. more ›

It looks like there has been another shooting at Virginia Tech -- and one of the victims is a police officer. more ›

Yesterday, we discussed how D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has sparingly used her emergency powers to shut down bars and restaurants after violent incidents. Now it looks like Heritage India, the site of a fight which led to a shooting that left one man dead last weekend, is faced with much more than having its doors shuttered for 96 hours. more ›

The intersection of 14th and R Streets NW is usually crowded at the 5 p.m. hour, but it can normally be chalked up to the foot traffic of people making their way to happy hour or back home from work, and not because of a daytime shooting. more ›

Good morning, Washington. U.S. Park Police have released the name of a man they want to speak with in connection with the gunshots reported near the White House Friday night. Investigators are trying to track down 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega. more ›

A settlement has reportedly been reached over the 2007 shooting of 14-year-old DeOnté Rawlings by two off-duty D.C. police officers. more ›

This morning, Mayor Vince Gray and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier updated the public on the investigations into several shootings which took place last night. more ›

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that they had made two arrests in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Demetrius Emmanuel Thompson on a Metrobus last Thursday. more ›

D.C. police have ramped up efforts to find two suspects who they believe were involved in the murder of 22-year-old Demetrius Thompson on a Metrobus on shortly after midnight on Thursday, releasing footage of the two suspects as they boarded the bus. more ›

Last night, we mentioned that Metro Transit Police were asking the public to help indentify whoever shot a man at an Oxon Hill bus stop on Sunday. But that's not the whole story. more ›

Yesterday morning, we reported on an attempted robbery outside the CVS at 6514 Georgia Avenue NW in Brightwood which devolved into a shootout. Police now have confirmed that one of the robbers in the group has died, while two others have been arrested. more ›

UPDATE: Two suspects in the robbery remain at large, but police have confirmed that the man who was shot and transported to the Washington Hospital Center was a third suspect. Police have also confirmed that an armored car parked in front of the pharmacy was the target of the attempted robbery. more ›

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the day a D.C. police officer shot a dog at the Adams Morgan Day festival, another police officer has been accused of firing his service weapon at a pit bull. more ›