Good morning, I'm chief Robert J Conti,
the third chief of police here in
Washington DC at the Metropolitan
Police Department this morning,
just before 8:00 o'clock AM.
Members of the Metropolitan Police
Department responded to the 200
block of K St Southwest for a
report of a domestic incident.
Within minutes of that initial
call to the police,
about four or five minutes later,
we received the second call for
report of a shooting in the 1500
block of South Capitol Street.
Right now,
the incident that we are investigating
is a male who has been shot.
That person is taken to.
It was taken to an area hospital
where he is currently receiving treatment.
We have a lookout for a black vehicle,
a black truck.
I don't have A tag number at this point,
but it is a black SUV that was
involved right now.
We believe that this incident is a domestic
has very much have domestic overtones.
Shortly as we continue to investigate.
This a lot of this information
is very preliminary,
but we hope to have a little bit
more information here shortly,
but right now it appears to be
a domestic incident that started
in the 200 block St Southwest.
So just saying from the scene there's
some kind of a silver car damage or open.
What's the connection with that car?
Was this person shot in a vehicle
the person was shot inside of the vehicle?
Yeah, so it started in the 200 block
of K St Southwest and appears that
that vehicle was occupied by the Gray
vehicle that your silver vehicle that you
see there was occupied by our victim.
In this case our suspect was
occupying a black SUV,
followed the victim to this location
where shots were fired and MPD
was called to the scene as well.
So basically the shots were
fired from car to car.
We're not certain exactly what the
where the shots fire from the car.
If the person got out of the car,
but we do know the shots were
fired in this direction back here.
Both males, both males. That's correct.
You know the connection between them.
Want to really talk about
the connection right now,
but it's definitely just domestic overtones.
And these are very serious injuries, too.
Correct. They are serious injuries.
The person that's taken to the hospital,
he's being treated and we're.
We're hopeful that this person
will survive his injuries.
We're we have been able to kind of
work through some of the information
with the victim at the hospital
is the situation is serious,
but but we're we're working through it.
What happened to the black
you left the person in the black
SUV left after the shooting?
OK, any other questions?
Not at this time.
We're working through that again.
It's a domestic situation and we're
just trying to put the pieces together.
It's very early in the investigation,
it just happened within the hour or so,
but we're we're working through to
try to get to the bottom of it,
and I'm confident we'll
get to the bottom of it.
OK, because I did have a question for you,
OK sure that was over the weekend.
There were some,
I guess mental health overtones.
Apparently she was wearing some sort of.
Fast and body camera and can you
just kind of describe what she what,
what that was about.
So she's was employed by a by a security
company in the District of Columbia,
and her duties were supposed
to be that of a concierge.
However, the outfit that she was
wearing black what we call BDU pants,
a black vest with the body worn.
Camera is not necessarily.
Assisted in my view with the
duties of a of a concierge.
So we are certainly investigating that
aspect of why she was dressed the way
she was performing the duties that
she was supposed to be performing for.
The company that she that employed
her. And we also have some sources that
say that prior to the shooting there was
an encounter police were called
to her workplace I believe,
and that there was an incident there.
Can you kind of characterize so there
was the report? The erratic behavior
that was displayed by her at work,
and I don't believe the
Metropolitan Police Department
officers encountered her there,
but she had left the workplace
and went to the location on
Critical Street where the shooting
occurred and we were called to that
soon. Anything that could have been done.
Given the the report at the workplace,
no, I mean not at this point.
I don't think there's anything that
could be done. I mean, obviously,
if you have a person who whatever
she was dealing with at that point,
you know decided that she's going to
shoot neighbors and that kind of thing.
I mean, you know,
our police officers responded to the
scene and dealt with the situation.
You know, when we arrived on Crediton
St the prior scene, the one that the
the work site 2900 block of 14th St,
I believe it was, you know.
Erratic behavior at work.
I'm not exactly sure what
contributed to that.
Obviously.
You know we have more work
to do in that case than that
matters under investigation.
We've had two murders and then this
shooting and probably less than
24 hours. Just, you know, we seem
to be going through a pretty
a pretty tough time, yeah,
I mean, I've been very public about that.
We are going through a very tough time,
but I believe in the city.
I believe in the people in the city
and I know that we can do better than
what we're doing when we talk about
the the incidents from last night.
You know one of those.
The stabbing death that we had last night.
I was inside of a location.
We have some information that we're
working with and I'm hopeful that we'll
get to the bottom of that very soon.
The other incident that occurred on Astor
Place that was inside of another location.
Again, I've been talking
about this very publicly.
I think when we talk about we
look at the last two years.
Just kind of, you know,
where is the humanity for our
for our fellow human beings.
The reason why people are being shot.
The reasons why people are
being stabbed is it's it's.
It's just the level of.
Ridiculousness that I have not seen
in a very long time and that's very
disturbing to me as a law enforcement
officer was very disturbing to
disturbing to me as a father.
A very stern disturbing to me
as a DC our resident right.
Those things are very disturbing to
me and we're seeing these things.
You know really all across the country.
But I know that this city can do better
than what we are doing as a whole.
And I believe in the people in this city
and I believe that things will get better.
Thank you.