One teenager has been killed and three people, including a police officer, injured during a shooting at an “unpermitted” music festival in Washington D.C. on Sunday afternoon, accordin to law enforcement.
The incident occurred at around 6 p.m. in the area of 14th and U Street, near a Juneteenth Music Concert, during an event called “Moechella,” D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert J. Contee told reporters late Sunday night.
The Moechella event was described as an “Advocacy Festival Amplifying the Culture of Washington, D.C” on social media.
Contee said several hundred people had gathered for the “unpermitted event.”
“At some point during the course of this gathering, there was some type of incident, of fight that happened between some of the individuals who were in attendance,” Contee said. “That incident was broken up but shortly thereafter, there was a second incident after a few minutes. We are unsure of what that incident was, but people started to scatter at that point in time. MPD members shut the event down because it appeared they went was unsafe.”…