Several shootings, stabbing in D.C. leave four dead over weekend

Four killings in the District on Saturday marked the third weekend in a row the city has seen a spike in violence.

Three deadly shootings and one fatal stabbing followed previous weekends in which juveniles were confronted by National Guard troops in Navy Yard and a dozen people were wounded in multiple different shootings across the nation’s capital.

The killings took place within a bloody six-hour period on Saturday. Metropolitan Police have not arrested anyone in connection to the slayings.

Authorities said the violence started just before 3 p.m. when they were called about a shooting in the 1900 block of C Street SE.

Officers arrived to find a 17-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. Emergency responders rushed the teen to a hospital, but he died while undergoing treatment.

Police said another teen boy was found dead about four hours later in the 700 block of Newton Place NW.

Officials said the boy, whose age wasn’t shared by authorities, had a single gunshot wound to his upper body when officers located him inside a home. Detectives did recover a gun near the victim, and are investigating what led up to the teen’s death.

The deadly stabbing and final deadly shooting of the day both happened within 15 minutes of each other in Southeast.

Police said they were called about a stabbing in the 1300 block of Morris Road SE around 8:35 p.m. Officers found a man, whose identity was not divulged, suffering from several stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.

Less than 15 minutes later and a half-mile away, police said a woman was shot multiple times in the 1400 block of 14th Place SE.

Authorities pronounced her dead at the site of the shooting.

Violent flare-ups have become a trend in the District as of late.

Several fights broke out among a group of juveniles on Halloween night in Navy Yard, with police saying the youths were brawling in the streets and blocking traffic near the corners of First and M streets in Southeast.

Viral videos showed National Guard troops trying to defuse the scene as juveniles sprinted away from authorities

Metropolitan Police said they detained four teenagers on charges related to resisting arrest and consuming marijuana. An 18-year-old was also taken into custody after police said he had a knife on him.

The incident, which made national headlines, prompted D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser to reinstate a short-term citywide juvenile curfew. The D.C. Council approved a lengthier, 90-day curfew during a legislative meeting days later.

A week earlier, 12 people were wounded in multiple shootings throughout the District.

That included a mass shooting on Howard University’s campus that left a 13-year-old boy and four other adults injured by gunfire. Howard was celebrating its homecoming when the shooting took place.

A 5-year-old boy, two juvenile girls and a teenage boy were also victims in one of the seven shootings that erupted across the city on Oct. 24.

The Shaw neighborhood was hit by three separate carjackings the next day. Police said groups of thieves surrounded cars and forced drivers out of their vehicles, but didn’t say if one crew of assailants was responsible for thefts.

The streak of violent weekends comes nearly three months after President Trump launched a crime crackdown in the District.

Mr. Trump’s 30-day emergency saw roughly hundreds of federal agents begin patrolling city streets as more than 2,000 National Guard troops were stationed in tourist hotspots and high-traffic Metro stops.

Killings, muggings and carjackings fell dramatically during the operation, and Republicans in Congress sought to crystallize some of Mr. Trump’s public safety proposals into law with their own legislation.

Violent crime overall remains down 29% since last year, according to police data.