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New details in Downtown DC gun battle, homicide
We're learning new details about a gun battle and a homicide in Downtown DC on Friday.
WASHINGTON - D.C. police have identified the victim at the center of a massive police response near the National Portrait Gallery Thursday evening.
Police say 20-year-old Jaykell Mason of Southeast shot and killed 29-year-old Terence Dantzler before fleeing the scene before being shot by an officer.
Mason was taken into custody in the area of 11th and H Streets, Northwest, and treated for his injury.
Police say Mason’s gunshot wound was not life threatening.
Police charged him with first-degree murder while armed, assault on a police officer while armed, and carrying a pistol without a license.
If you have any information that might help police in their investigation, call (202) 727-9099.
Dantzler's father talked to FOX 5's Paul Wagner, telling him everyone knew him as T.J.
He said Dantzler was a cook who was from Marshal, Va.
"The family is Heart broken and devastated by his death," his father said.