A man who was shot by a D.C. officer on Bladensburg Road NE on Monday was arrested on charges including gun crimes, police said in an update.
Deion Hinnant, 31, of Northeast, was shot and then arrested for alleged assault on an officer, carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered gun and ammunition, and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, the Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday.
There are new questions about how the officer shot Hinnant. A police report obtained by News4 says officers on patrol saw what appeared to be a crime in progress near a bank and tried to intervene.
Since the shooting, the narrative of what police say happened has changed slightly. Initially, police said their crime suppression team saw an altercation and tried to intervene. The report now says the team saw Hinnant chasing someone with a gun.
The initial DC Fire and EMS dispatch call indicated that a man had been shot in the back. On the scene Monday night, Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons declined to say where in the body that Hinnant was shot.
In a statement Wednesday, police said investigators with the Violent Crime Suppression Division’s Robbery Suppression Unit were in the 2100 block of Bladensburg Road NE when they saw an altercation.
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They got out of their cruiser and tried to stop a man who they saw with a gun. The man ran and investigators ran after him. Investigators yelled for him to show his hands.
“The man did not comply and appeared to turn towards the investigators. At that time, an MPD investigator discharged their firearm multiple times, striking the man,” the statement said.
Hinnant was shot in the 2200 block of Bladensburg Road, police said. Investigators provided aid and DC Fire and EMS took him to a hospital with serious injuries.
A gun that police say belonged to Hinnant was found.
Investigators involved with the shooting were placed on administrative leave, per MPD policy. An investigation is underway by the MPD Internal Affairs Division’s Force Investigations Team. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will independently review the case, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is assisting.
In a news conference after the shooting, Parsons told reporters that members of the Robbery Suppression Unit were assigned to “go out and get illegal guns off the street, encounter folks that are bad actors in community, and they were doing exactly what they were asked to do.”
The investigators’ body-worn cameras were activated.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Hinnant has a lawyer.
Since April 1, 2023, MPD officers have been involved in seven shootings: three fatal and four non-fatal. In two of the shootings, officers were wounded.
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News4 is trying to get a comment from Chief Pamela Smith on the circumstances of the shooting and new information learned from the police report.
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