Multiple people shot in D.C. not far from White House

"Not far" as in a mile away, but other than that.

It's actually closer to the U Street Entertainment Corridor and nowhere near the White House.

Mr. Map is not our friend, yet again. Yes, I used to live two blocks from there at 16th & Columbia.

It’s not “far” from the White House, but no one in DC considers it close. It’s not in the White House area

Police confirmed six individuals sustained gunshot wounds.

The victims include five adult males and one adult female. An adult male was pronounced dead at the scene.

As of midnight Thursday, it's not clear if a suspect has been taken into custody.

Police say that the incident is not considered an 'active shooter' situation.

Section 8 apartment area ?

Jesus. I hate people who don’t know anything about DC. This is nowhere near the White House. It’s Columbia Heights. I hate to say it but as much is that areas gentrified and way overpriced there are pockets that are still super busted.

Hood rats.

Melanoma and her boyfriends?

Columbia Frights

Too bad all of them didn't die.

Is 45 a suspect?

Shit, they missed their target. Plan better nest time.

DC is a very dangerous place to live or visit.

Reminds me of a local university that butts up against a ghetto. The news loves to blare BREAKING when something happens in the poor neighborhoods and call it "Campus area".

After 5 stories, you finally discover they are non-white, non-students and 5 blocks from where a student would want to live.

Are non-white and students mutually exclusive, bitch at R12?

Who got shot? Is it that mole we had to pull out of Russia so the Dumpster Fire wouldn't sell him out to Putin?

R12, you are a mess

R11 Oh, you fat-typing tourist.

DC doesn't even make the top 25 list anymore. You can drag your maiden aunts down the street and they'll barely get a rude remark.

Ha ha stupid libs ! They couldn't defend themselves cuz' they didn't have guns ! Idiots !

Ha ha stupid libs ! They couldn't defend themselves cuz' they didn't have guns ! Idiots !

Seems the media is trying to balance out the Lone White Male Mass Shooter stories lately, by reporting on more hood rat vendetta shootings.

DC is small only like 69 square miles, so nothing in it is far from something else.

BTW just yesterday, eleven people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including three who were killed outside a Garfield Park store on the West Side

R20 Let's simplify that: it's mostly 5 miles on each side, and if you include the City of Alexandria back in as it originally was, then you have a lovely square 5 miles by 5 miles as originally intended.

That puts this "nearby shooting" approximately half the distance of the District away from the White House. Ergo, nowhere near.

Chicago? That's flyoverstan. It's nowhere NEAR Trumpy.

Shooting happened in the courtyard of a privately owned subsidized complex in a very crowded and partly gentrified neighborhood. It is a block over from the subway stop. Crew is DC speak for locally based gangs, closing down some public housing seems to have moved people into proximity and created conflict. Crime in the immediate area is up.

Too bad a visitor was empowered to an early grave. Maybe they should up security?

It's too bad it wasn't at . . . . . .

whenever you see the word " empowering " or"empowerment " in reference to helping lower classes you can be sure the program is being administered by people seeking money and will cost taxpayers millions while not lifting a single disadvantaged person out of poverty.

DC is a weird city, and Columbia Heights is a great example why. One block you're walking past 2-bedroom condos on the market for $750 grand, and the next block over you'll have bullets whizzing past your head.

R26 lol exactly politico vocal fry next to ghetto

R26 You had me at “DC is a weird city”.

40 years ago, that was a shithole neighborhood. Nobody walked there. We looked at condos in our neighborhood in Adams-Morgan before deciding to move out of DC. No more barrachos on the street, homeless people having sex in street courtyard across the street and the constant drug dealer traffic.

I wish I had stayed: I love how much the city has improved.

Likely a bunch of black people.

Sadly, no one gives a shit

Shoo dey dont care bout da bruthas in dc.. its all about politico jew vocal fry do gooders

Multiple shootings are becoming a gang thing now at parties. Doesn’t matter what kind of party. - Sweet 16, a christening, grandma’s birthday. Shooter hits 5 or 6 people, usually 1 dies. Don’t know why this has started, but it’s becoming a weekly thing all over the country.

gunman fired into group that included members of a neighborhood criminal crew

R26, not sure how weird that is. The proximity of high-priced homes and condos to dodgy housing projects is a feature of many, if not most, big cities in the US, particularly cities that have been undergoing relentless gentrification. It’s not to say that all public housing projects are hotbeds of crime, because they’re not. But I think it’s fair to say that no one with the financial wherewithal to live elsewhere chooses to live in one.

“DC is a very dangerous place to live or visit.”

I lived for six years a few blocks from there just below Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. Now I live about a mile from there in Kalorama (a very nice neighborhood). I walk downtown to work and back every day and I’ve never been involved in or seen any kind of violent altercation in a decade. “Bullets whizzing by your head” is a crazy exaggeration.

Not an exaggeration re: the 1300 block of Columbia Road, esp this year, R34. Open drug dealing around the metro a block away. Columbia Heights is sliding back. Kalroama is hardly an apt comparison to the area immediately around Columbia Heights Village. The nearby elementary school was put on lockdown several times in the spring due to gunfire.

People advocate razing public housing and dispersing residents but several reports said this mixing of crews from different neighborhoods at CHV was a cause of the incident on Thursday night. See quote at link or the statement by the police chief in the WaPo that someone linked.

Bet a developer would love to get their hands on that property tho.

This was one of the incidents where the elementary school was placed on lockdown. The shooter was 15.

All those kids have a different experience of DC than living in Kalorama, just a short walk away. Sad.

Columbia Heights has gentrified and many that paid exhorbitant prices for old housing stock seemed to think that entrenched crime patterns would magically vanish. Retaliation for Thursday night is likely...and so the cycle goes.

[quote]DC is a very dangerous place to live or visit.

Pssh...tell me about it.

No shit!