Police: DC Mass Shooter Had “Sniper-Type Setup”

April 23, 2022 Guns, Mass Shootings

The Washington Post reports:

An hour after a man fired shots indiscriminately in the Van Ness neighborhood on a busy Friday afternoon, Raymond Spencer updated the Wikipedia page for the nearby Edmund Burke School. “A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022,” Spencer wrote. “The suspect is still at large.”

Police later identified Spencer from Fairfax, Va., as a person of interest in the shooting before announcing that a suspect was found dead that night in a nearby Van Ness apartment surrounded by firearms and ammunition.

On Saturday, D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said the gunman fired more than 100 rounds from a long gun, and he confirmed reports that bullet holes were being found in buildings in the area.

The New York Times reports:



The terror and confusion ended late Friday when the city’s police chief, Robert J. Contee III, announced just after 9:30 p.m. that the suspect in the case had been found dead in a fifth-floor apartment, where there was a tripod that the police described as a “sniper-type setup,” at least six guns and many rounds of ammunition.

Three adults and a 12-year-old girl were injured in the shooting. Two of the adults were in stable condition Friday evening at a hospital; the girl was in stable condition with minor wounds; and a woman who was grazed by a bullet was treated at the scene.

Chief Contee said the investigation was ongoing. “We will get to the bottom of this,” he said. “We will find out what the motive is. Right now, we do not have that answer. But the answer that we do have is that our communities are now safe.”

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