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District Man Admits To Firing 14 Rounds At Metropolitan Police Officer District Man Admits To Firing 14 Rounds At Metropolitan Police Officer
District Man Admits To Firing 14 Rounds At Metropolitan Police Officer A gun-toting District man who fired more than a dozen shots at an officer from the Metropolitan Police Department in Northeast DC has copped to the crime, authorities announced. Saeve Edward Evans, 37, pleaded guilty in US District Court this week following an incident last August that saw him involved in a potentially deadly standoff with officers. According to court documents, at around 5:25 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2023, Evans was walking a dog in the 1700 block of Benning Road NE when an unknown person walked in front of the building, prompting Evans to take out a gun and fire it into the sky th…

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DC Mass Shooting Happened Minutes After Funeral For Gun Violence Victim: MPD DC Mass Shooting Happened Minutes After Funeral For Gun Violence Victim: MPD
DC Mass Shooting Happened Minutes After Funeral For Gun Violence Victim: MPD Even an increased police presence at the funeral of a homicide victim in DC couldn't prevent a mass shooting that left one dead and three injured on Tuesday afternoon. Gunshots rang out minutes after a funeral was held at approximately. on Tuesday April 11 at the Stewart Funeral Home on Benning Road for a man who was killed in March, according to Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III. The incident happened at approximately 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Stewart Funeral HomeGoogle Maps Contee said that a member of the department was stationed nearby the funeral home at the famil…

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by Zak Failla