7 people injured after mass staking in DC

At least seven people have been injured after a lot of stinging in Washington, DC, including a grandmother and her grandchildren, police say.

Thursday, April 3, the Metropolitan Police Department announced in a series of posts on x About 15.45 local time as investigators and emergency personnel examined a lot of striking that injured several people at the intersection between the city’s Meigs site and northeastern Montello Avenue.

“MPD is on stage for many people who are knocked in the Meigs Pl & Montelo Ave ne,” the department and shared another place where the event took place. “A suspect has been arrested.”

A spokesman for DC Fire and EMS told ABC News that seven people were transported from the scene to the hospital.

At a press conference held at the scene later on Thursday, MPD -Manager Pamela Smith called the crime “A pointless attack”, according to DC news now – and shared that the investigators had found the suspect lying on the ground nearby. Officers took the man, whose identity has not yet been released, in custody and blood jug It was used in the event on the ground nearby.

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Smith said the man was in a “changed mental state of an unknown subject.”

“When he walked down the street, the individual began to stab himself and then staked a female acquaintance who was also with him. The suspect then stacked others who stood outside at the neighborhood,” said manager Per DC news now.

According to Smith, two “good samarites” tried to intervene during the knife knitting and injured.

Four women and two men were transported to nearby hospitals and were all in stable condition as of Thursday afternoon, Smith died during the press conference. Among the victims were grandma and her grandchildren, but no minors were involved in the attack, FOX 5 DC reported.

“I will say this, even though we are grateful for their intervention, we would ask that individuals who see incidents like this do not intervene,” Smith added.