.png)
WASHINGTON — Police are asking for your help to find the people responsible for a deadly double shooting in DC. The shooting happened just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 3000 block of Stanton Road, Southeast.
We caught up with one neighbor on a moving day. She said the complex, once known as Stanton Glenn and Stanton Hill, has undergone several name and management changes, even a renovation. But she said they have never been able to clean up the crime. Now she is asking city leaders to step up.
“It just looks good on the outside but it's nasty on the inside,” said the woman.
In an apartment complex where many people closed their doors when we showed up, this woman spoke freely but did not want to show her face and share her name for the real fear that exists here.
“They just ride around and will ride around until they find their ‘opp’ and before you know it, we got a body on the street,” she said.
Too many bodies, she said. The trauma of the constant violence finally forced her out to protect her family: one relative was killed, another shot at, and her youngest son suffering from PTSD and anxiety.
“A bullet just missed him and my other son, we were in the bedroom and shots rang out and it lasted for about 20 minutes,” she described.
Just before 8:30 p.m. Monday, police said someone fired shots into the Stanton Road complex killing 19-year-old Vonte Martin and injuring Nasir Smith. WUSA9 cameras captured the emotional scene where even a Special Police Officer broke down in tears.
“I got a call saying don't come around the Glenn, they got it blocked off, there was a shooting that's all I know,” said the woman.
The woman said Harris lived in the Hillstone apartments with his mother and brother. He helped her move just the other day.
“He was just in my house and now he's dead. Shows you again life is not promised. It shows you again they take life like they take money from you. They don't value life any longer,” she said, “They have no regard for life when they beefin'. They beefin' and it's unfair to those who are living right, like me and my children. We want peace. We want resolution. Here, it’s like a prison. Let us out. Come in, meet with us as residents, meet with the children who suffer more than us. Mayor Muriel Bowser you down at Sycamore Oak come here, they got a new playground – we don't. So come here and give our children a chance to enjoy life.”
WUSA9 reached out to management but did not hear back. Police are still investigating.
English (US) ·