DC’s 12-day streak of no killings ends, as prosecutors ID violent suspects nabbed by feds

The District witnessed its first killing in nearly two weeks amid the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital, while prosecutors began identifying some of the criminal suspects arrested by authorities during the citywide crackdown.

Metropolitan Police said a man was mortally wounded by gunfire just after midnight Tuesday in the 300 block of Anacostia Road SE. The victim, whose identity wasn’t divulged, died at a hospital a short time later.

The man’s slaying ended a 12-day streak in which the District had not recorded a homicide…

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