Document: 1 injured, 1 killed in Northwest, DC

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened in the Takoma neighborhood of DC.

At around 11:41 p.m., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers responded to the 7000 block of Blair Road, NW. There, they found an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. He was conscious and breathing. He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

While canvassing the area, officers found Phillip Roache on the 7000 block of 5^th Street, NW. Roache, a 38 year-old resident of Waldorf, Md., unconscious and unresponsive. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

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