Washington police ID man wounded by officer in gun incident

Cellphone video shows a D.C. police officer with his gun drawn after a suspected gunman was shot in northwest D.C.

Police say that Jeffers was firing a handgun on a busy northwest Washington thoroughfare when he was shot Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities and a witness interviewed at the scene said the gunman walked northbound on Georgia Avenue starting at Quincy Street NW, steps from the Petworth Metro Station, and started shooting as he headed toward Randolph Street about 1:45 p.m.

A witness to the shooting, 37-year-old David DaSilva, told The Associated Press that he saw a young African-American man walking in the area shooting randomly. “Wasn’t shooting at anyone in particular, just randomly shooting in any direction”, Dasilva said. DaSilva says he heard 10 to 15 shots and officers arrived and told the man to drop his weapon. “He discharged his service weapon”. She did not have the race of the officer involved in the shooting. His condition was not released.

Brown and Newsham, the forthcoming interim chief, says that officers who were on the scene are not injured, nor were any bystanders.

Police did not identify the officer who fired.