D.C. police are currently investigating an early morning shooting incident which involved several people — including an off-duty police officer and, reportedly, transgender victims — at the intersection of First and Pierce Streets NW. At approximately 5:20 a.m., authorities reported that three adults had been transported to a local hospital, after an off-duty cop >fired his service weapon during an altercation with three individuals. The officer, who was uninjured in the incident, was taken into custody

Not many other details are currently available about what may have sparked the confrontation, but the last thing the department could possibly want for at this point in time is another flash point in its combustible relationship with the District’s LGBT population.