$60,000 Reward Offered After Child Killed, 5 Others Shot in DC

$60,000 Reward Offered After Child Killed, 5 Others Shot in DC
A notice with a $60,000 reward offered by the police after a 6-year-old girl was killed in a shooting in Washington on July 16, 2021. Metropolitan Police Department
The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON—A 6-year-old girl was killed and five other people were wounded when a gunman opened fire Friday night in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood, just feet from where police officers were stationed.

The gunfire erupted shortly after 11 p.m. on Friday in the Congress Heights section of southeast Washington.