DC Rings In The New Year With A Homicide On The First Day Of 2019

Washington, D.C., rang in the new year with five shootings on the first day of 2019, including one homicide.

The New Year’s Day homicide came after a particularly horrific spike in homicides in the nation’s capital in 2018. One-hundred-sixty people died by homicide in the District in 2018, a nearly 40 percent jump over 116 in 2017, reported the Washington Post.

The District’s first homicide occurred in southeast Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night when a man was shot and killed.

Another man is in critical condition after a shooting around noon Tuesday in northeast Washington, D.C., reported WaPo. The man may have been uninvolved in a dispute that escalated and ended with guns being fired, police said.

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