Washington shooting kills three

Three people died and three others were injured Saturday night in a shooting in northwest Washington. While trying to clarify the reasons for the event, the Metropolitan Police Department offered a large sum of money as a reward, for those who provide data to track shooters.

The shooting took place at 7:30 p.m. EST on Longfellow Street, Block 600, in the Brightwood Park neighborhood. “There was a confirmed shooting in the 600 block of Longfellow Street, NW with several victimsThe department announced on its Twitter account.

Robert Contee, head of the Metropolitan Police Department, claimed those who died were young adults, according to published information NBC News. They are still trying to determine if this was a clash or some sort of ambush, although a security camera in the area would have provided some clues as to when the shooting was taking place.

What Contee was able to clarify was that the suspects got out from inside a vehicle, apparently a black Honda Accord, and shot across the block at a group of people, although he was says that did not know the reasons.

Local police authorities have requested the cooperation of the local community in locating the perpetrators of the shots. “We are asking the public for help to locate the vehicle below in relation to a triple homicide,” they said in this social network. They are looking for other security cameras in the area to determine where the attackers fled.

According to initial reports, the lives of survivors, who remain hospitalized, are not in danger.

The Metropolitan Police Department has activated the necessary mechanisms to find the culprits. In fact, it offered a compensation of up to 75 thousand dollarss (25,000 for each homicide) “to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible”.

Police Chief Contee called this type of gun violence “very frustrating.” “We know this problem is not unique to Washington, DC,” he said. “I think this speaks to the general disease that we see in our community, and that disease is gun violence,” he added.