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DC shooting leaves 6-year-old dead and five adults injured

By Jeremy Beaman
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DC shooting leaves 6-year-old dead and five adults injured

A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were injured Friday night in a shooting in southeast Washington, D.C., according to police.

Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department’s 7th District heard an eruption of gunfire and responded to the scene on a street corner near the city’s Congress Heights neighborhood, where they found the victims, said Ashan Benedict, the executive assistant chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department.

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