ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - One person was killed and four others injured in a shooting on Thursday in a heavily secured area near the White House in Washington, DC, said the police.
Rudaw’s Diyar Kurda, reporting from the scene, said the shooting occurred around 8:30 am local time in an area with a heavy police and National Guard presence, distinguishing the incident from other shootings in the city.
The shooting took place near Logan Circle, about 1.2 kilometers from the White House, with Jeffrey Carroll, interim chief of the DC Metropolitan Police, telling reporters at the scene that “at this time we have located four individuals that were shot here at the scene and transported and one individual who is deceased here on the scene.”
Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said on X that officers responded to an "ACTIVE SHOOTING" near 15th and P streets NW, with emergency response teams at the scene urging people to avoid the area.
"I didn't see anyone doing any shooting. I just saw the ambulances taking, a few people out on stretchers from the apartment building,” Montez Toye, a bystander who witnessed the emergency response, told Rudaw’s Diyar Kurda at the scene.
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