Sunday, January 07, 2007

Crime Continues

y Clarence Williams and Martin Weil
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 7, 2007; Page C03

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/06/AR2007010601614.html]

Here are the paragraphs from this article that mention a shooting in Eckington yesterday, Saturday, 1/6/2007:

Also yesterday, a man was shot and critically wounded about 3 p.m. at Fourth and W streets NE, in the Eckington neighborhood. A woman who was shot in the same incident was less seriously wounded, police said.

According to police, the woman was hit in each thigh. The man was hit at last twice in the chest, police said.

The woman, 28, of Northeast Washington, stumbled into a barber shop, and the man, who is from Southeast, fell in front of a service station, police said.

Investigators said an assailant walked up to the pair and opened fire. No motive was immediately apparent.

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