Police responding to reports of a shooting found an injured woman, and fatally shot another woman in uniform they said was acting erratically.
Officers were administering first aid to a woman who had been shot in the arm around 6 a.m. in the 800 block of Crittenden Street NWa woman armed with a gun nearby acting erratically, D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said at a news conference Saturday.was on the front porch of another residence on the block, smashing windows, and that over the course of a minute or so, police ordered her to put down the firearm and lie on the ground.
“It appears that they are familiar with each other,” Contee said of the two women, who were neighbors on that block of Crittenden Street. “But I’m not exactly sure why … this special police officer shot the other neighbor, at this point.”Police are canvassing the neighborhood and working to find out more about the situation. The woman killed in the exchange was wearing a uniform bearing a name that was not hers, Contee said.
Police don’t yet know whether the semiautomatic weapon she was carrying was issued to her, Contee said. Some special police officers, who Contee said are uniformed and commissioned through the city to provide services, are authorized to carry such weapons, but others are not licensed to carry firearms.
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