Shootout in DC's Anacostia neighborhood caught on camera

WASHINGTON — A D.C. man is sounding the alarm about gun violence after security camera video captured a shootout in his neighborhood Thursday night. 

Charles Wilson, who is Chair of the DC Democratic Party, shared the video on his X page Thursday evening, saying it happened in Anacostia. The timestamp shows the shots rang out at 3:16 a.m. 

In the video, you can hear more than a dozen gunshots and two men yelling back and forth while firing. Near the end of the video, two men in white T-shirts run right past the camera firing at each other.

"What’s wrong with these young folks? They don’t care about each other or any other bystander. Luckily no one hurt," Wilson said in his X post. 

We have requested an incident report from DC Police to learn where the investigation stands. Anyone who may have information for investigators should contact police at 202-727-9099 or text the department's tip line at 50411. 

Last month, the Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis. 

Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory detailing why gun violence has reached crisis level -- and why he believes it needs to be solved through a public health lens.

He shared sobering data showing that gun violence has become the number one killer of children in the United States.

“The bullet goes so much further. The bullet hits the community. It hits, it hits everyone around," said Jawanna Hardy, who started a group to support D.C. kids called Guns Down Friday.

Fifty-four percent of American adults worry "sometimes," "almost every day," or "every day" that a loved one will become a victim of gun violence.

Suicides and homicides by firearms have been increasing.

The advisory states, though, that the cause is a combination of factors that need to be addressed holistically.