A man was killed and a 5-year-old boy was wounded in a home invasion by masked gunmen in Northwest Washington early Thursday.
The death followed a fatal shooting at an Adams Morgan playground Wednesday. The two fatalities pushed the District’s homicide number within four of last year’s total.
At about 8:15 a.m. Thursday, police responded to a report of a shooting inside a row house on the 600 block of Kenyon Street Northwest in the Columbia Heights area. At least two men wearing ski masks were seen fleeing the home and driving off in a red or maroon minivan, possibly with Georgia license plates, police said.
The injured man was taken to a hospital, where he died. The boy was shot in the shoulder and is expected to survive.
Police said the man appeared to the target of the shooting, but the motive was unclear.
The killing came the morning after two men were shot, one fatally, in Adams Morgan. Police said the suspects approached a group of people outside the Marie H. Reed Community Learning Center at Champlain Street and Kalorama Road around 8 p.m. and opened fire.
Derrell Goins, 21, of the 600 block of Edgewood Street NE, was taken to a hospital, where he died. The second victim, found nearby at 18th Street and Kalorama Road, was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
The shooting deaths pushed the number of homicides in the city this year to 177, two more than last year over the same period of time. Last year ended with 181 homicides.
