Police responded to three people shot within a mile-and-a-half of each other in Northwest D.C. on Tuesday afternoon.
Two of the victims are thought to have been wounded in the same shooting.
Police said investigators do not believe the two shootings are connected.
The first shooting occurred a little before 4:30 p.m. in the 4000 block of Kansas Avenue NW. A man was shot in an alley and was in critical condition.
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A suspect was last seen in a black ski mask, tan hooded sweatshirt and black jeans and was riding a black-and-white motorized scooter.
D.C. Fire and EMS and the Metropolitan Police Department then responded to a shooting in the 1300 block of Peabody Street, where a man had been shot in the leg shortly before 4:45 p.m.
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Police then got a call in the same area, 13th Street between Peabody Street and Colorado Avenue, where a 79-year-old driving down the block suffered a graze wound to her head, a source on the scene told News4. She was found conscious and is now resting at home.
News4 spoke briefly with the woman, who is doing okay but declined an interview.
As many as 10 vehicles were also damaged by the gunfire.
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Police said there had been a running gun battle between two groups of men. There were three men in each group, and they were last seen running on Georgia Avenue.
A man was renovating a home on the block when he heard the gunfire and sound of ricocheting bullets. He hit the floor and stayed there for a few minutes, he said.
Community reacts: 'City just doesn't take action'
At a community walk Wednesday, MPD Inspector Sean Connors of the Fourth District told a small group of residents the department is doing everything in its power to drive down crime.
"I'm sure if you've come to any of our walks, our meetings before, we've talked about the Real Time Crime Center," Connors said. "that's a huge asset to us right now where we can look at footage in real time as things are happening. That's what we did yesterday. You saw the image we put out for the shooting on Kansas Avenue."
There are not yet any images released from the shooting on Colorado Avenue.
“Why are we not getting these officers to walk the beat, go to the houses and find out what is going on what is triggering this?" asked one resident at the walk. "There has to be something triggering this."
Residents at the walk expressed concerns over what, on the surface, seems to be an uptick in violent crime.
"We have seen from armed robberies, to auto theft, carjackings and shootings back and forth," said ANC Commissioner Vanessa Rubio. "We have sounds of gunshots late at night."
Rubio grew up in the neighborhood and now represents it. She said residents were safer when MPD used vice squads to drive down crime.
"Constituents are raged," Rubio said. "They're raged that this is happening, that nothing is being done. We know where the problems are, and the city just doesn't take action."
Connors said the department is working to recruit more officers and encouraged people to install cameras and give police access to the footage.
