D.C. hit with rash of deadly attacks

Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - The District of Columbia has had seven homicides in four days, the most since last summer, when a spate of 13 homicides in 11 days launched a months-long crime emergency. A 29-year-old man was killed in a triple shooting in Columbia Heights at 10 p.m. Thursday night, the third homicide of the day.

The deaths this week shattered a relatively peaceful summer in which the number of homicides, at one time this month, were the lowest they had been in more than 20 years.

Homicides are now 6 percent higher than they were at the same time last year.

On Thursday night, Tayvon Glover, of the 1300 block of Columbia Road became the city's 120th homicide. Glover was one of three men shot in the 1400 block of Girard Street NW. Two others were taken to area hospitals. Authorities believe they will survive.

Earlier Thursday, police responded to the sound of gunfire at about 4 a.m. and found two men slumped in a sport utility vehicle, dead with multiple gun shot wounds.

The rash of murders began about 9 p.m. Monday, with a stabbing in the 1300 block of Corbin Place in Northeast.

A man was shot to death about midnight Tuesday in the 1000 block of 14th Street SE. At about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, a man was fatally shot in the 2200 block of Nicholson Street SE, and another man was killed later that night at the intersection of 17th Street and Benning Road in Northeast.

Police are asking anyone with information to call at 202-727-9099. A $25,000 reward is being offered to anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest and indictment in any homicide in the District.

smccabe@dcexaminer.com

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