DC residents speak out after night of brazen shootings: ‘Definitely an increase in violence’

Crime ‘getting worse’ in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON – D.C. residents say they are “seeing a lot of violence,” and crime is “getting worse” after a string of brazen shootings.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, there were four unrelated shootings across Washington Dec. 15 in a span of 90 minutes that led to one death and four injuries.

There was another shooting around 7:45 p.m. ET at the busy corner of 14th and U Street, breaking the windows of a municipal building and surprising some neighborhood residents.