WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — One person is dead and two others were hospitalized after a shooting broke out in Southeast D.C. Tuesday night.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) told DC News Now that the shooting happened minutes before 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 5, in the 1800 block of U Street, near Florida Avenue. There, responding officers found three people suffering from gunshot wounds.
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Officials noted that a man and a woman were both taken to the hospital to be treated for their injuries.
A second man was also found at the scene, unconscious and not breathing. Medics performed life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead…