4 injured and one suspect killed after shooting in Washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people, including a girl, were wounded Friday in a six-hour shooting that wreaked havoc in the north of the U.S. capital and ended with the discovery of a suspect killed in an apparent suicide. A man and a woman were seriously injured and a 12-year-old girl suffered a minor injury, while another woman in her 60s was slightly injured by a bullet that grazed her back, but did not need to go to a hospital. The incident caused chaos for hours in the area of the shooting, a wealthy area between the van Ness and Cleveland Park neighborhoods, where there are several schools and where the University of the District of Columbia is located.Read more: A person sets himself on fire in front of the SUPREME Court of USAPass 21:30 (01:30 GMT on Saturday), six hours after the first news of the incident emerged, police finally confirmed that they had located the suspect after a frantic search.” The suspect has been found dead inside a residence in the area of Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness Street,” police in the District of Columbia, where Washington is located, said in a tweet. Shortly before, authorities had released photographs of a 23-year-old they were looking for for questioning about the shooting and identified as Raymond Spencer of Fairfax, Virginia, one of the capital’s suburbs. The suspect was found dead in the bathroom of an apartment in the AVA residential building in Van Ness, sources close to the investigation told NBC. According to The Washington Post, authorities are examining online posts that could correspond to Spencer, particularly on the 4chan platform, where a user with that name began writing at 3:24 p.m. (19:24 GMT), around the time police warned of the shooting. Dear God, please forgive me,” wrote that user in his first message, followed a few minutes later by another that said: “Waiting for the Police to find me” and one more in which he mocked that the agents were looking for him “on the wrong side of the building”. In addition, a user named Raymond Spencer updated the Wikipedia website of nearby Edmund Burke High School at 16:33 (20:33 GMT), writing: “A gunman fired at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still on the run.” The shooting caused the school to hold the children until after sunset in closed classes accompanied by officers, while police insisted there was still an “active threat” in the area. Police teams armed even with semi-automatic rifles combed the area, checking every corner of buildings and streets, flew over the area with helicopters and cut off traffic on one of the city’s great arteries, Connecticut Avenue.Read more: Protest in Mexico City for unknown in the case of Debanhi Escobar “Normally, this is a quiet place. I’m still trying to process what has happened,” Eduardo Bugay, a resident of the area who said he heard four gunshots and saw people running down the street, told the Post.



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