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Officer injured in shootout A police officer is in good condition after he was injured in a shootout with a teenage suspect in Northeast D.C.

Police responded to a report of a disturbance at a house on the 700 block of Crittenden Street NE shortly after 5 a.m. When officers arrived, an armed 15-year-old boy was on the house’s second-floor awning and “ambushed the officers,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

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