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A 34-year-old man fatally shot early Tuesday by a D.C. police officer was the first to fire a gun during their encounter, Metropolitan Police Department officials said.
Three men were shot and injured in the District during two recent robbery attempts in which victims fought back against their attackers, police said.
A handful of protest activity was reported around Monday's inaugural celebrations, with the most serious incident occurring hours before the ceremony when demonstrators marching through the Chinatown neighborhood in Northwest Washington smashed windows at a bank and a Hooters restaurant.
A man found dead in a Northwest D.C. apartment building's ventilation shaft Wednesday night was identified as a 23-year-old Clarksburg man who went missing on New Year's Day, according to D.C. police.
Holiday gifts may have already been delivered to their destinations, but that didn’t stop a pair of robbers from holding up a UPS driver in Southeast D.C. on Wednesday and hoisting packages from the back of the driver’s van.
A D.C. police officer shot and wounded a robbery suspect in Southeast on Tuesday, officials said.
A man was killed Thursday night during a home invasion in the District's North Michigan Park neighborhood in Northeast, police said.
Two men were shot overnight in the District, one in a home invasion in the Trinidad neighborhood and another outside of a school near the Anacostia Metro station, according to police.
D.C. police say shots were fired just blocks from the White House following an armed robbery attempt.
Three teenage thieves upped the severity of an unpleasant Halloween antic – robbing a young boy of not only his candy but his iPhone as well as he went trick-or-treating in Georgetown Wednesday night.
D.C. police on Wednesday afternoon recovered the body of a man found floating in the Anacostia River near the 11th Street Bridge.
A Northeast man was tracked to Georgia and extradited to the District on murder charges for an August shooting, D.C. police said Tuesday.
D.C. police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in an industrial area of Northeast early Wednesday.
Four people were injured in a Friday night shooting on the 1300 block of North Capitol Street Northwest, police said.
Mr. Groshan had suffered no obvious signs of trauma or physical injuries but the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is still working to determine a cause and manner of death, MPD spokesman Officer Araz Alali said.
Police recovered a gun from the scene and said the Southeast D.C. man fired at least once at the officer, who witnessed the man "acting erratic," MPD spokesman Officer Araz Alali said.
