at least one dead and three injured at Washington funeral home

A man has died and three other people have been seriously injured. in a shooting Tuesday at a funeral home in northeast Washington, police said. The event comes 24 hours after another assailant killed five people at a bank branch in Louisville, Kentucky.

The events took place at 4000 Benning Road at around noon (6 p.m. Spanish time) and the authorities are looking for a green vehicle that has fled the scene.. Police have asked citizens if they have any information about the incident to telephone but under no circumstances to attempt to act on their own.

“It’s unfortunate that someone would be so brazen to do such an act, let alone at a funeral,” said Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee, who detailed that at the time of the shooting the memory of Stephen Carroll, 24, was being honored.who was shot and killed on March 31. At that time, a suspect or suspects fired into the crowd gathered in front of the funeral home, where an officer was on duty nearby.

The police, who has not yet identified the person or persons responsiblehas opened an investigation to determine what happened and for now the motives are unknown, as reported by The Washington Post.