The shootout near the parade route of Saturday’s Caribbean Carnival that left one person dead and three others wounded was connected to a shooting that killed an innocent bystander earlier this year, police sources said. Police sources say the intended target was a teenage gang member who was the victim of an assassination attempt in February. That shooting instead killed 17-year-old Cardozo High School student Lucki Pannell.
D.C. Councilman Jim Graham said the target had been under the supervision of the District’s Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency authorities and been transferred to New York.
“What’s pretty clear is that a lot of people want him dead,” said D.C. Councilman Jim Graham. “Back he comes, and the result is another innocent person is dead.”
The man killed this weekend, 43-year-old Robert Foster, was also an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of warring gangs near Howard University, according to police.
More than 20 shots from two weapons were fired. Two other men and a woman were shot and survived.
No arrests have been announced as of late Sunday.
Graham wants to known why the target was returned to D.C., whether he was being monitored and whether the D.C. police had been informed.
A source familiar with the investigation said the shootings are part of a longtime dispute between two gangs
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