                   5

a second volley of shots. 3 When he was finished, the shooter ran back toward

Randolph Place.



      Washington was talking on her cell phone when the first volley of shots was

fired. She returned to her conversation, heard more “pops,” then turned around and

saw everyone running away. Washington ran towards her car on R Street to get

away, but was shot four times—in the chest, wrist, and ankle. Wingard, who was

near Washington, tried to move both of them out of the shooter’s way. Wingard

was shot three times in the forehead. After the shooting, Washington collapsed

near Wingard in front of the church on the northwest corner of NorthCapitol and R

Streets. Clipper had collapsed in the median; he had been shot in the left shin and

the left foot, and the bullet to his left shin had broken his fibula or tibia.4 Williams

collapsed in front of the carryout with two gunshot wounds to his left forearm and

two to his chest, near his collarbone. Fifteen 9 mm shell casings, all fired from the

same gun, were later recovered from the scene.



      Three Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) officers, Francisco


      3
         Four eyewitnesses described hearing two separate sets of shots with a
pause in between. Only Clipper did not think there was a break in the shots.
      4
 