Metropolitan Police Department detectives are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who they think was involved in a fatal shooting on Tuesday afternoon in Southeast.
The video depicts a man shooting a large gun in broad daylight on Alabama Ave. SE by 22nd Street, close to Turner Elementary School and, as The Washington Post notes, less than a mile from the 7th District police station. According to MPD, it is not a machine or submachine gun, though a spokesperson would not comment on the type of firearm used.
Officers responded to a report of gun shots around 3:45 p.m. on March 28, and found a three-car crash at the corner of Stanton Rd. and Alabama Ave. SE. Both the driver and passenger of one of the involved cars—a BMW 525i—were suffering from gun shot wounds, according to the police report.
Both adult men were taken to an area hospital, where one of them, 31-year old Antwan Jones of Arlington, was declared dead.
The other victim sustained non-life threatening injuries. MPD spokesperson Rachel Schaerr said police could not disclose whether he had been released from the hospital or if he was cooperating with the investigation. She declined to say whether detectives have a motive for the shooting.
As of today, there have been 29 homicides so far this year in D.C., an increase of two murders over this time last year. In a 1,000 foot radius of the stretch of Alabama Ave SE between Stanton Terrace and 22nd Street, there have been five reported violent crimes in 2017, down from eight in 2016, according to MPD’s crime map.
MPD offers a reward up to $25,000 to those who provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for murders in the District. Police ask anyone with information about this case to call 202-727-9099 or anonymously send information to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.
Rachel Kurzius