WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. police are investigating a double shooting near an elementary school in Southeast that sent two people to the hospital overnight.
Around 1:20 a.m. on Thursday, July 17, officers with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) were called to the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE for reports of a shooting. Once on the scene, police found a teenage boy and a man who had been shot at the intersection of Alabama Avenue SE and Stanton Road SE.
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According to the police report obtained by DC News Now, the victims were walking on Alabama Avenue and were in front of the Turner Elementary School when a car sped by and began shooting at them.
MPD said they were both taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries…