Six people were shot Monday in Northeast D.C., capping a particularly violent period in the city.
now stand at 127, up 11 percent over this time last year, according to the city’s official count on Tuesday. But assaults with dangerous weapons, which include shootings, are down 8 percent, even with the unusually high number this past week.made no arrests. They identified the man who died as Lance Melvin, 24. He lived in Southeast Washington, but public records show his family once lived in the area where he died. Efforts to reach relatives were not successful.
Peter Larson, the vice president of property management for Horning Brothers, which owns the apartment complex, said those two cameras have been vandalized twice in the past six months. two armed guards in addition to off-duty police officers, who he said drive around different complexes. On Monday night, he said one off-duty D.C. officer had just finished patrolling a location in Ivy City, about two miles away, and another had just been at Azeeze Bates. He said two security guards were in another part of the complex when the shooting occurred.Larson said he has asked police and lawmakers to put a city camera tower in a public alley where the six people were struck Monday.
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