Two dead in separate Southeast D.C. shootings

Two men died in separate shooting incidents less than three miles apart Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Southeast D.C. The first shooting occurred around 9 p.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of Trenton Place in the Congress Heights neighborhood where police found Antwan Lamont Petty, 19, dead from a gun shot wound. The second shooting occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 1100 block of Chicago Street near Anacostia. The victim Henry Charles Miller, 32, later died at a nearby hospital. Police have already charged a suspect, David Allen Shepherd, 48, of Northeast with murder in the Chicago Street shooting.

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