Police release video seeking to identity two men of interest

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Police are circulating a video with hopes of identifying two people of interest wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of 53-year-old Eric Linnair Wright.

Eric Wright was shot and killed on Friday February 17. He was unresponsive as police arrived at the scene and suffering from a gunshot wound on the 900 block of 12th Street, NE at around 9:30 p.m.

Wright was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.