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District of Columbia police in response to reports of a shooting Saturday in the Petworth neighborhood, found a wounded woman and fatally shot another a woman near the scene who does not want to fall firearms, authorities said.
Police provided first aid to a woman who was shot in the arm around 6 am in block 800 on Crittenden NW when other officers simultaneously encountered a woman dressed in the uniform of a special police officer and armed with a semi-automatic weapon nearby, acting chaotically, said the District of Columbia Police Chief Robert J. Conti III at a press conference on Saturday.
Said Conti the woman she was on the front porch of another residence in the block, smashing windows, and for about a minute police ordered her to drop her firearm and lie on the ground. When she disobeyed orders, police eventually shot her, said Conti, who does not know how many times she was shot.
Police spokeswoman Briana Birch later said preliminary findings showed the woman had not dropped her weapon after multiple commands. She said the employees involved had been put on administrative leave, a routine act.
Later on Saturday, police said the shot woman was not registered as a special police officer in the district. She is believed to have shot the other woman, they said.
She was wearing a uniform with a name that was not hers, Conti said. Police have learned that she recently started working for a security company.
“They seem to be familiar with each other,” Conti said of the two women who were neighbors of the block on Crittenden Street.
Police are patrolling the neighborhood and working to find out more about the situation.
Birch said Saturday afternoon that the injured woman was conscious and breathing.
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