Police are still investigating a motive behind the shooting near the Edmund Burke School.
by the city and comes amid a 26 percent surge in violent crime compared to the same time last year. It is driven by a spike in robberies, including carjackings.for the past four years, are down 10 percent year-to-date. But shootings throughout the District remain a concern for residents, compounded by Friday afternoon’s attack in the Van Ness neighborhood when police said a gunman fired more than 100 rounds from an apartment window across from the Edmund Burke School.
Authorities said they are still trying to determine a motive. Spencer, from Fairfax County, killed himself as police breached his door, authorities said, leaving a sparsely furnished room that police described as a “sniper-nest,” filled with firearms, ammunition and a tripod for mounting a rifle. Police officials said they believe Spencer had searched Wikipedia pages on the recent attack in the New York City subway and a school shooting in Florida, and edited the Wikipedia page for the Edmund Burke School to document his own shooting.
Even as the police flooded Connecticut Avenue to respond to the sniper, there was other crime to contend with, including three people injured in a shooting three miles away on Kennedy Street NW. The following morning, D.C. police
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