Photo by Miki J.

Communities east of the Anacostia River contended with a deadly series of shootings yesterday and early this morning that left two people dead.

Around 6:40 p.m. yesterday, someone fatally shot a man in Parkside, a burgeoning neighborhood in Northeast, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Officers found the victim on the 3600 block of Grant Place NE, where he was pronounced dead on the scene.

About three hours later, violence erupted in Southeast. Police said a man and a woman were shot in Anacostia on the 2800 block of Douglass Place SE. They were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

And around 1:30 a.m., less than a half mile south of the previous incident, one man was fatally shot and another man was shot and taken to a hospital in critical condition. The shootings took place on the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE.

The series of shootings takes place a week after more than 100 people debated crime and policing in the D.C. at a public oversight panel that lasted past midnight.

Although there has been an overall downward trend in crime in the District over the past 20 years, 2015 was punctuated by a spike in homicides. A number of witnesses at the panel argued that this reduction in crime has happened in primarily white and wealthy areas, while other parts of the city remain unsafe.

MPD is currently in the process of replacing its leader after long-serving Chief of Police Cathy Lanier stepped down last month, as well as and rebuilding the department’s head count, which shrank to 3,786 in December—the lowest in at least a decade.

Police are currently investigating each of these recent shootings, and no suspects have been arrested.