D.C. police responded to reports of gunshots at 12:34 a.m. — the latest shooting in an already violent week. Officers found a 4-year-old girl and a woman in the 5300 block of East Capitol St., NE, in the Capitol View neighborhood. Both were suffering from gunshot wounds and were transported to a nearby hospital conscious and breathing, according to police.

By the end of the night, police responded to three other shootings — one in which rounds were fired into a house.

2020 has been a violent year in D.C., with 106 people killed since the beginning of the year, compared to 88 this time last year. Violence has spiked during the pandemic, and some victims have been young children. On July 4, 11-year-old Davon McNeal was shot and killed after an anti-violence cookout. In May, a 4-year-old girl was shot by another child, in what police said appeared to be an accident while playing with the firearm.

In the incidents last night, 10 rounds were fired into a home on Uhland Terrace, SE, according to a police report. Bullets destroyed two windows and damaged the house facade but nobody was injured. Police also responded to a report of gunfire in the 200 block of Newcomb St. SE, where they found a man who had been shot in both feet and the left leg.

In Northwest, police responded to a shooting at 14th and Taylor, were an adult male was transported to the hospital, conscious and breathing, according to a police spokesperson. This incident was four blocks from a shooting in broad daylight on Sunday, were one person was killed and eight people were injured.

Gun violence has been on the rise in D.C. since 2012. That year, the District recorded 88 homicides, the first time — and only time — there were fewer than 100 killings in the city since 1963.