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- April 13, 2021
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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a double homicide that happened on April 12.
At around 7:33 p.m. that day, DC Fire and EMS responded to the 2300 block of Good Hope Court, SE for the report of a fire, according to a press release. Moments later, police were dispatched there for the report of a shooting.
Upon arrival, emergency personnel found a woman in a parking lot, suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Two other women were found with gunshot wounds as well. One of them was pronounced dead on the scene. The other died at an area hospital.
The decedents have been identified as 48-year-old Wanda Wright and 32-year old Ebony Wright, both of Southeast, DC.