A woman shot a man during a road-rage attack early Thursday in Washington, DC, just blocks from the vice president’s residence, police said.
The female suspect sideswiped a man as they were driving at about 4:30 a.m. on the 3600 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW, police told The Post.
The woman got out of her vehicle and opened fire at the man’s car, striking him with one round to the back of his head, police said.
Cops initially said the 49-year-old victim had a graze wound and was “conscious and breathing” when taken to a hospital, but later said he had life-threatening injuries.
Additional information on the man’s condition was not immediately available, police said.
Investigators are searching for the woman, who was described as a black female with long, curly hair. Her car was described as a blue coupe with shiny rims, police said.
“It’s currently an active investigation and we’re still looking into it,” Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Carly Ferreira told The Post earlier Thursday.
The female suspect sideswiped a man as they were driving at about 4:30 a.m. MPDDetectives released photos of the female suspect and her car that were caught on a nearby surveillance camera. The images appear to show a woman holding a gun near her face and the back of her vehicle as she drove off after the shooting, which is being investigated as an assault with intent to kill, DC police said.
Investigators believe the woman sped off toward Montgomery County, Maryland, NBC Washington reported.
The shooting took place just three blocks from the vice president’s residence, the Washington Post noted.
Crime in the area, which includes foreign embassies, private schools and churches, is rare, according to the newspaper.
Detectives released photos of the female suspect and the above photo of her car that were caught on a nearby surveillance camera. MPDJust one violent incident, a robbery, has been recorded in the police patrol area this year.
Property crime, including theft, is the biggest problem in the northwest Washington neighborhood, police statistics show.
The official residence of the vice president of the United States on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory in Washington APIt is unclear whether Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were inside their home on the gated grounds of the Naval Observatory when the shots were fired, the Washington Post reported.
Anyone with information about the shooting should call the Metropolitan Police Department at (202) 727-9099. A reward of up to $10,000 is offered for info leading to an arrest and conviction.
