WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhua) — One person was killed and five others were injured, including two children, after gunmen opened fire into a crowd in northeast Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Department said.
The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (2200 GMT) in the Carver Langston neighborhood in the U.S. capital, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith told a press conference Wednesday evening.
Preliminary information indicated that the suspects exited a vehicle and \”began shooting into the crowd\” outside a residential area, she said.
Two men, one woman, a nine-year-old boy, and a 12-year-old boy were transferred to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, she added.