Police are aware of video uploaded to the internet message board 4chan that appears to show the shooter opening fire on Edmund Burke School. Contee declined to say if Spencer was the suspect who is dead but said, “we are no longer looking for that person of interest.” Spencer is not a suspect, Emerman cautioned. It was not known if Spencer is currently in the area. “This was very much a sniper-type setup with a tripod, and this person, obviously, his intent was to kill and hurt members of our community,” Contee said, adding the suspect was shooting from north to south.Ĭontee said it appeared the suspect was shooting at people randomly rather than in any sort of pattern.Īsked if the suspect had been previously known to law enforcement, the chief said the preliminary information he’s received indicates no past contact.Įarlier, Stuart Emerman, the assistant chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, named Raymond Spencer, 23, as a person of interest. He said they do not believe there were any other shooters beside the dead suspect, and are not sure of any connection between the suspect and the nearby Edmund Burke School, a college prep school in northwest Washington.ĭC's Metropolitan Police Department tweeted out pictures of the firearms that were recovered inside the apartment in Washington where the shooting suspect was found dead. Officers recovered six firearms inside the apartment where they found the suspect, Contee said, including “several long guns, multiple, multiple rounds of ammunition, and handguns as well.” The investigation is ongoing, he said, adding that police do not have a motive at this point for the shooting. Police are not looking for another suspect, Contee said. “We believe that the suspect took his own life as MPD members were entering or breaching the apartment where the suspect was located.” “The suspect that we believe is responsible for this is now deceased,” said Contee, who declined to name the suspect pending notification of next of kin. The suspect in a shooting in northwest Washington, DC, that left four people wounded on Friday afternoon has died, DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said.
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