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A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest in an apartment building near an elite prep school in the nation’s capital on Friday,wounding four people, before taking his own life as police closed in, officials said.

An FBI tactical team deploys from an armored vehicle at the scene of a reported shooting and active shooter near Edmund Burke Middle School in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest Washington, U.S., April 22, 2022.An FBI tactical team deploys from an armored vehicle at the scene of a reported shooting and active shooter near Edmund Burke Middle School in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest Washington, U.S., April 22, 2022.

Police had issued a bulletin with photographs of Spencer hours earlier saying they were seeking him as a “person of interest” in their investigation. With help from eyewitness reports, police managed top in point the gunman’s position to the fifth floor of a”particular apartment building” and ultimately “breached the location where the suspect took his own life,” Contee said.

The four victims were shot at random as “they were going about their business … on the streets of the District of Columbia,” he told reporters. Eyewitnesses told Reuters and local media outlets they heardmultiple bursts of rapid gunfire. Contee said at least 20 shots were fired.The late-afternoon violence unfolded along a busy Connecticut Avenue corridor that is also home to several foreign embassies, the Howard University School of Law and a campus of the University of the District of Columbia.

Jennifer Di Giacinto told Reuters she learned of the shooting from a text message from her son, a Burke School 11th grader.

 

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