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DC police investigating 2 shootings within 30 minutes of each other

By FOX 5 Digital Team
Updated  August 18, 2021 2:38pm EDT
Washington, D.C.
FOX 5 DC

WASHINGTON - D.C. police are investigating two shootings with two victims who were found "unconscious" and "not breathing" at two separate scenes within 30 minutes of each other on Wednesday.

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One person was found "unconscious" and "not breathing" in the unit block of L Street, Northwest.

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Another victim was found at a scene on Martin Luther King Boulevard, Southeast.

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Police have not indicated whether the incidents are connected, but they arrive amid a surge in gun violence in the capital.