The incident began, according to police, as a verbal dispute between two men who knew each other. Around 1 p.m.
, officers responded to a report of violence on the 400 block of Oakwood Street Southeast. They found that a man had been shot in the lower region of his body, D.C. police Assistant Chief Andre Wright said at a news conference in a video that police posted on Twitter.
The officers also found the suspect laying on his chest on the ground, holding a gun pointed at them, Wright said.Officers, who were wearing body cameras, gave “several loud commands” for the man to drop the weapon, Wright said. When he didn’t, Wright said, the officers fired. The assistant chief did not specify how many times the officers fired.Police arrested the suspect, who suffered a graze wound to his head that is not life-threatening, said Kristen Metzger, a police spokeswoman.
The other man’s injuries were not life-threatening, police said, and he was taken to a hospital for treatment. “We believe that this event was an isolated event between the two individuals,” Wright said. “And that there’s no more danger to the community at large.”
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