Several people shot outside funeral home in Northeast Washington
One man was killed and three other people were wounded Tuesday afternoon in a shooting outside a Northeast Washington funeral home where mourners had just finished a service for a man who was fatally shot in March, according to D.C. police.D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said people were milling about after the service at Stewart Funeral Home on Benning Road NE, and it appeared a gunman or gunmen targeted one or more people standing on the sidewalk.
“It’s unfortunate that someone would be so brazen to do such an act, let alone at a funeral,” Contee told reporters at the scene. “How low can you be of a human being to target other people at a funeral?” Police did not say if any of the victims had attended the funeral for 24-year-old Stephon Carroll, who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of March 31 on E Street in Southeast Washington. Police have yet to make an arrest in that case. Carroll’s funeral ended at noon; police said the gunfire at the funeral home began at 12:17 p.m.The man who was killed Tuesday has not yet been identified.
By 2:45 p.m., the streets around the funeral home were quiet, save clusters of police behind caution tape and reporters eating lunch. A black tent, where forensics detectives examine the dead, was erected outside the front door of the funeral home.HAND CURATED
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