by Chris Gallagher
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – Two adults and a minor were injured in a shooting near a school in the northwest city of the U.S. capital Washington on Friday, police said. the order, the search for one or more suspects.
A man and a woman were found near Edmund Burke School and hospitalized in critical but stable condition and a minor suffered minor gunshot wounds, according to Deputy Chief of Police Stuart Emerman.
Police forces are deployed throughout the neighborhood in search of an unidentified suspect, he said, adding that several individuals seen fleeing the scene were briefly restrained by officers at the scene before being taken away. exonerated.
“We are looking for one or more suspects. We have no motive at this time,” Stuart Emerman told reporters. “We don’t know all the details of what happened. But we continue to ask people to stay away from the area while we continue our investigation.”
A witness told a local TV channel that he heard a burst of gunfire for about a minute and saw several people taking cover behind cars and pointing to a balcony from which the shots appeared to come.
According to Washington, DC police, the shooting took place near Connecticut Avenue in the northwest of the city.
The upscale neighborhood is also home to several embassies, Howard University Law School and the Van Ness Campus of the University of the District of Columbia, which said on its Twitter account that it had been instructed to stay on the grounds of establishment for safety. (with Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman Los Angeles, French version Laetitia Volga)