DC shooting leaves 3 dead, 3 wounded, suspects on the run

"It speaks of the overall sickness that we're seeing in our community."

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in Washington, D.C., in what police suspect was a "targeted" shooting by gunmen who jumped out of a car and opened fire on a group standing near a street corner, authorities said. The triple-homicide unfolded about 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday in the Brightwood Park neighborhood in the northern part of the nation's capital, Chief Robert Contee of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department said at a news conference. Contee said police officers were in the area when they heard multiple gunshots and raced to the intersection of Seventh and Longfellow streets, where they found six people shot. He said the wounded individuals were taken to hospitals, where three of them, two men and a woman, were pronounced dead. He said the others suffered non-life-threatening wounds.