Two men killed Monday afternoon

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Police are investigating two different homicides that happened just hours apart in the District Monday afternoon.

According to police, Antonio Austin was fatally stabbed within a block of police headquarters, near 4th and E Streets, NW, Monday afternoon. Austin was taken to an area hospital where he later died.

Another man, Jerome Diggs, 47,  was found on the 1300 bock of First Street SW suffering from gunshot wounds. He later died at the hospital.

Police are still investigating both homicides.