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Several Injured as Gunshots Ring Out on Busy Street in Washington

At least two men were injured in an apparent drive-by shooting in a crowded neighborhood of Washington, DC, police said.

The shooting unfolded on DC’s Northwest 14th Street on Thursday, reporters on the scene said, some noting the area includes a number of high-end restaurants.

Police told a journalist with a local Fox affiliate that the two men wounded are “conscious and breathing,” while another DC-based reporter noted that one victim was hit in the arm, the other in the chest.

Video footage taken near the Le Diplomate restaurant captured a volley of gunfire, which CNN’s Jim Acosta said was “a few blocks” away from the site of the shooting.Volume 90% 

Other clips and photos of the scene circulated online showed first responders tending to injuries and police securing the area.

One Twitter user who claimed to have witnessed the incident said they believed it to be a drive-by shooting, but police have so far not confirmed that detail. The authorities did say, however, that the suspect, a black male, fled the scene in a black Honda Civic immediately after the incident. At the time of writing, the shooter was still at large.

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