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Police have arrested a D.C. man after a gun went off in a vehicle near the World War II memorial.

Reports of gunfire in a white Hyundai at the intersection of 17th and Independence Avenue SW sparked a three-hour manhunt on Tuesday afternoon. Maurice Holmes, 30, has been charged with fleeing to elude law enforcement in the incident, according to the U.S. Park Police.

There was an altercation among the passengers of the car and one shot was fired, shattering the passenger side rear window around 2:30 p.m., according to police. The car then fled the scene. Evidence was recovered on the Rock Creek Parkway in the area of the Kennedy Center before Holmes was found and pursued in upper Northwest around 5 p.m. (by that point he was the only person in the car).

Police have spoken to one of the two other occupants from the earlier incident and are searching for the third. There have been no reports of injuries related to the shooting.

Holmes gave his version of the story to The Washington Post. The short version: he was high on PCP and his car had gotten robbed.

The incident began on Independence Avenue, where Holmes said he was attacked. Witnesses said they saw the driver punch a man in the back seat and then heard a gunshot. Holmes said his friend was trying to wrest the gun away from the attacker when it went off, and then his friend tried to push the assailant out of the car.

“My ear’s still ringing now from the gunshot,” Holmes said.

Holmes said he drove off and stopped near the Kennedy Center. He said his friend and the assailant got out and fought. Holmes’s friend then got back into the car and they left, leaving the gunman behind. Police said they found a gun on the street near the theater.

Holmes then drove home to Mount Pleasant before getting spooked by a Lincoln Navigator pulling up near his house. So he got back in the car and led police officers on a chase through Rock Creek Park before heading to Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness Street.

“I’m a victim,” Holmes explained. “Me running from the police only had something to do with me not trying to get pulled over in [Rock Creek Park]. I didn’t want the police to shoot me in the park.”