Three adults and a teenager were injured on Friday in a peaceful district of the US capital by a shooter that the police, deployed in number, actively search. The victims are in a stable state.
Le Monde with AFP
Four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were injured by firearms fire on Friday, April 22 in Washington. Three of them, transported to the hospital, are in a stable state. The fourth victim of about sixty years, later identified, was treated on the spot.
“We are looking for a worthy person” for the survey, a 23-year-old man named Raymond Spencer, said the press one of Washington’s deputy chiefs, Stuart Emerman. Wanted for its links with publications on social networks, it is exhorted to appear in front of the police.
“Easy access to firearms must stop”
In the afternoon, after being called around 10:20 Local Time (19 hours 20 GMT), many members of the police, equipped with rifles and impressive bulletproof shields, Fulled the area, confining schools and university. The facts took place in Van Ness, a northwestern district of the capital, rather easy and usually quiet. Many inhabitants have been evacuated at the speed of the area where many detonations have resulted, according to videos shared on social networks.
The Washington police, in the same afternoon, expressed two other shootings in other districts of the capital. 226 homicides were counted in the city in 2021, a figure up 14% compared to 2020. “We are determined to help the inhabitants and stop the firearm violence,” said the Press the Mayor Democratic from the US capital Muriel Bowser. “Easy access to firearms must stop.”
Friday night, the authorities still recommended avoiding the area of the shooting that made four wounded.