24 hours of panic and terror in Washington. The US capital has been the scene of two shootings that have left a total of nine adults injured and a girl of only six years dead. The last one took place this Saturday outside the stadium of the Nationals baseball team.
Four people were injured in this shooting. It happened precisely while the Nationals were playing a game against the San Diego Padres. Initially, the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia had reported that two people had been hit by bullets outside the stadium, although later it added that two other victims were being treated in nearby hospitals.
When the shots were fired outside, the attendees were asked to remain in the stadium over the public address system, although later he asked them to leave the stadium, which has left images of fans running around the facilities and crouching between the stadiums. rows of armchairs.
The city’s Police Force has published a message on its social networks in which it assures that the event is under active investigation and that “it seems that there is no threat in progress,” according to ‘The Hill’.
The first shooting
This event occurs just 24 hours after you see another shooting in the city that has claimed the life of a child under six years of age and has injured five other citizens. The Washington Police have announced that they are offering a reward of $ 60,000 (almost 51,000 euros) for the perpetrator of this first shooting.
The event took place on Friday, a little later at 11:00 p.m. (local time) in the Congress Heights neighborhood of the US capital, as reported by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.
The victims of the incident were on the sidewalk between Martin Luther King Júnior avenues and Malcom X avenues, located in the southeast of the city, when the shooter passed through the area aboard a vehicle, as reported by the chief of Police, Robert Contee.
Three men and two women, all of them adults, were injured and treated in hospitals in the area for weak injuries, while the minor died of gunshot wounds.
At the moment the causes and circumstances of the shooting are unknown and there are no suspects, although the mayor of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, has asserted that they will find out who killed the minor.
