Eight people were wounded Friday night in Southeast Washington in two shootings that police said may be connected. Those wounded appeared to sustain non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Police said both shootings could be connected but did not explain their thinking.
No motive was known in either case.
The large number of victims in the Lebaum Street shooting was attributed to a variety of factors, including the warm weather on a Friday night, which brought people outdoors. It was not known if any of those hit had been targeted. Lebaum is a tree-lined residential street in the Congress Heights area just west of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE.