WASHINGTON — A neighborhood in Southeast D.C. is in shock after dozens of bullets ripped through cars and homes during a shootout around 3 a.m. Thursday, and it was all caught on camera.
Charles Wilson, who is Chair of the DC Democratic Party, shared the video on his X page Thursday evening, saying it happened in Anacostia. The timestamp shows the shots rang out at 3:16 a.m.
In the video, you can hear more than a dozen gunshots and two men yelling back and forth while firing. Near the end of the video, two men in white T-shirts run right past the camera firing at each other. No one was hurt.
"What’s wrong with these young folks? They don’t care about each other or any other bystander. Luckily no one hurt," Wilson said in his X post.
Mark Calligan said he hopped out of bed just after 3 a.m.
"First, what woke me up, there were some guys, you could hear them arguing right here at the corner.”
That argument, Calligan said, led to gunshots.
"They were shooting at each other like two people were playing with water guns or toy guns, but these were real guns, and they were using our cars as protection while they ran up and down the street shooting and yelling at each other," Calligan said.
Greta Fuller said her house was hit.
“It seems like a bullet hole up there near my attic," Fuller said.
While talking with Fuller, she found another shell casing.
“Oh, wait a minute. What’s this, guys? Look," she said. “Look what I just found, look! This is part of one right there. I’m telling you, we’re still finding them.”
Fuller says she’s lived here 23 years and says it’s frustrating finding this at her doorstep.
“Oh here we go, look at this one. This is how much they were shooting.”
It’s frightening and infuriating enough that it has Fuller considering leaving DC altogether.
“I’m thankful nobody got hurt, but still, it’s money out of my pocket," she said. "It’s stress I’m feeling from crime in the neighborhood that’s on the uptick and it’s mentally draining, physically draining and emotionally draining.”