WASHINGTON — The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a shooting in Northeast D.C. Thursday night that left a woman dead.
Officers were called to the 700 block of 18th Street near Benning Road Northeast around 6 p.m. and found a woman unconscious and not breathing. She was confirmed dead by MPD around 8:30 p.m.
Police told WUSA9 that the woman was shot while in a car with her two small children. She has been identified by police as 30-year-old Deshaun Cupid of Northeast, D.C.
MPD tweeted that two men were seen fleeing the scene of the shooting westbound toward Gales Street Northeast. No arrests have been made in this case.
The investigation caused traffic closures in D.C. around the 700 block of 18th Street Northeast between Benning Road and Gales Street Northeast in both directions. Those roads have since reopened.
The two children present for the shooting are physically safe, police say.
This shooting marks the District's 30th homicide of the year. The neighborhood saw a similar tragedy a little over a year ago when a man was shot and killed with his baby in the backseat two blocks away from where this incident occurred on Benning Road.
"When I was coming up, we kind of fought with our hands, you know?" said one man near the scene Thursday night. "But now people are just taking women, children out, like they have no remorse about children and women at all."
This is the fourth time in less than three months that a parent was killed in front of their kids in D.C.
Police ask anyone who may have information to call them at 202-727-9099 or text the department's tip line at 50411. MPD currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person/persons responsible for homicides in the District.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information is available.
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