Police
arrested five people for allegedly shooting at officers in Washington, D.C.,
early Tuesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.
The
group allegedly fired at police to avoid arrest, not as part of a targeted
attack on cops, a police official told The Washington Post.
Five
people allegedly opened fire on police in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday. (FOX5DC)
Officers
in marked police cruisers were responding to reports of gunshots just after
midnight in southeast Washington, D.C., near Martin Luther King Elementary
School, when the cops were shot at by people inside an SUV, police spokesman
Dustin Sternbeck said.
Police
returned fire at the suspects, who barricaded themselves in the vehicle,
Sternbeck said. Officers ordered the group to come out, but they refused.
After
about 30 minutes, three women and two men in the SUV surrendered to
authorities. None of the five had been publicly identified as of Tuesday
morning.
The
investigation will include whether the individuals who were arrested may have
been involved in any other crimes before police arrived.
Police
were initially alerted to the area by the ShotSpotter system, WTOP reported.
ShotSpotter uses sensors to detect gunfire around the city and then notifies
authorities if anything is picked up.
Tuesday's
incident follows protests over police shootings of black men in Louisiana and
Minnesota and the fatal shooting of five police officers by an anti-cop,
anti-white assailant in Dallas last week.
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