Three District men were convicted of a drive-by shooting last summer that targeted a rival neighborhood crew, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced Thursday. Prosecutors said the men were affiliated with the KDY crew in the Kennedy Street neighborhood of Northwest Washington and were retaliating against the rival CRT gang from the Crittenden Street neighborhood, also in Northwest.

The pre-dawn drive-by attack was one of many violent episodes in a back-and-forth battle between the warring gangs, police said.