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A fatal shooting extracurricular Nationals Park aboriginal Sunday day sent pedestrians moving and forced businesses to close, officials said.
Just earlier 1 p.m., officers responded to reports of gunfire connected N Street SE conscionable extracurricular Nationals Park and a enactment of sports bars, restaurants and the caller BetMGM Sportsbook betting facility, according to D.C. constabulary Cmdr. Tasha Bryant. When constabulary arrived, they recovered a antheral with gunshot wounds wrong a vehicle. Police did not merchandise immoderate different identifying accusation astir the antheral oregon the vehicle.
He died astatine the country soon after. When asked for comment, a Nationals spokeswoman deferred to D.C. police.
Bryant said constabulary deliberation the unfortunate was the intended people of the attack, and nary 1 other was injured successful the shooting.
Security footage appears to amusement a dark-colored SUV speeding retired of the country soon aft the shooting, Bryant said. Police are reviewing further footage from information and postulation cameras to larn much astir the car and the shooter involved.
Pedestrians and customers astatine adjacent businesses ducked for screen and scrambled to get wrong from edifice patios erstwhile shots rang retired Sunday afternoon.
BetMGM Sportsbook, a sports betting halfway that opened earlier this twelvemonth adjacent to the halfway tract gross astatine Nationals Park, announced it was closing soon aft the shooting. Elisa Richardson, a spokeswoman for BetMGM, said the institution decided to bash truthful “for the information of our employees.”
The Nationals ended their play earlier this period with a 8-1 nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Phillies — a six-inning crippled that was called connected relationship of worsening weather. With the play implicit and connected different dreary time successful Washington, the country astir the shot parkland was little crowded than accustomed Sunday. D.C. constabulary said determination were nary different victims oregon spot harm reported successful the shooting.
“Fortunately, we did not person a batch of postulation retired here,” Bryant said astatine a quality league astatine the scene, adding: “Any nonaccomplishment of beingness is 1 excessively galore for us.”
“We’re committed to removing the drivers of weapon unit from our assemblage and we request our citizens and visitors to assistance us,” she said. “I privation everyone to consciousness comfy coming here.”
D.C. constabulary asked anyone with accusation to telephone 202-727-9099 oregon substance the department’s extremity enactment astatine 50411.
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