Three people were shot, two of them fatally, Saturday morning in the District.
Around 12:41 a.m. two black men approached two other men and shot them, one in the arm and one in the chest, on the 1200 block of Simms Place NE. The victim shot in the arm was taken to the hospital and treated and released. The victim shot in the chest was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Police said the shooting is under investigation but was probably not random.
In a separate incident, a male — police could not say whether child or adult — was shot dead on the 700 block of 19th Street NE around 10:17 a.m.
Police in that case are looking for a black man, about 6 feet tall, with medium complexion and thin build, wearing dark sweat pants and a black hooded jacket. He was last seen in a Silver Dodge Stratus being driven by a black male driver wearing a “bush-type hairstyle,” according to police.
