Police on Monday afternoon identified one victim as Othaniel Gaither, a 34-year-old from Southeast Washington.
The Sunday night shooting that killed two men on Capitol Hill began when one or more people in a vehicle opened fire at an SUV, spraying bullets over a nearly half-mile stretch of road and into a sometimes bustling intersection, authorities said Monday.Releasing new details of the incident, Dustin Sternbeck, a police spokesman, said the driver of the SUV had
as Othaniel Gaither, a 34-year-old from Southeast, and said the other slain man, the SUV’s driver, would be identified after officers reach his family. Gaither’s family could not be immediately reached.Sternbeck said investigators believe the shooter or shooters might have been targeting at least one person in the SUV.
said it was unclear how many people fired shots but that there was no evidence of an exchange of gunfire between the vehicles. He said police had recovered one firearm from the scene.
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