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'Senseless' Rush Hour Gunmen In DC Kill One, Injure Three Others, Including Boy, Police Say
The rash of gun violence in Washington, DC hit a new peak as a pair of gunmen opened fire in the middle of the afternoon commute and struck four people, including a child.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department were called shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 3, to the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue in Northwest, DC, when shots rang out not far from an area police station, Chief Robert Contee said during a news briefing.
One man was killed in the shooting, the chief said, while two other men and an 8-year-old boy were hospitalized for treatment of undisclosed injuries on Tuesday …