At dawn on Saturday a call came into the 911 center reporting a disturbance on Crittenden Street Northeast. Officers from the 4th District responded to radio calls. On their way to the quiet neighborhood, between Providence Hospital and Fort Totten Metro, fresh reports reached them: a man had a gun. The cops pulled up to the house in the 700 block in a marked car. They walked to the rear. As they reached the backyard, shots rang out. The shooter was hiding on an awning roof. He targeted one of the officers and hit him at least three times.
The officers were “ambushed,” in the words of Police Chief Cathy Lanier — by a 15-year-old boy, we were to find out.
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