Video of ‘sniper-type’ DC shooting suspect who shot people at random being analyzed: police

Washington, D.C., police are analyzing video as they nonetheless work to establish the motive of an accused gunman discovered useless in his “sniper’s nest” following a capturing that left 4 folks, together with a 12-year-old baby and a retired police division member, wounded final week. 

The Washington Publish first reported in regards to the video posted on-line throughout Friday’s capturing within the 2900 block of Van Ness Road close to the impartial school preparatory Edmund Burke College. Investigators imagine the video is genuine. It reveals the college’s glass walkway lined in posters from its latest monetary help public sale, themed after the sport Clue, earlier than the sound of gunfire erupts and a glass panel shatters. 

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Investigators additionally imagine that earlier than the capturing, the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Raymond Spencer, engaged with Wikipedia pages associated to the 2018 lethal mass capturing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive in Parkland, Florida, and the latest Brooklyn subway capturing assault this month. 

Police mentioned Spencer killed himself contained in the fifth-floor condo the place he allegedly fired greater than 100 rounds close to Van Ness Road and Connecticut Avenue Friday round Burke faculty’s dismissal. 

About 4 minutes after the D.C. capturing started, Spencer, from Fairfax County, Virginia, allegedly wrote on the net discussion board 4chan, “Pricey God please forgive me,” in keeping with the Publish. 

DC Metro Police launched photographs exhibiting weapon’s discovered within the condo the place suspected gunman Raymond Spencer was discovered deceased. 
(DC Metro Police )

DC police launched photographs exhibiting the a number of firearms and enormous amount of ammo recovered from the condo investigators categorized as a “sniper’s nest.” Regulation enforcement sources instructed the Publish that Spencer’s solely recognized connection to the realm seemed to be the sparsely furnished condo on the AVA Van Ness, the place police mentioned a tripod stand for a firearm and a mattress have been additionally discovered. 

“This was very a lot a sniper-type setup with a tripod, and this particular person, clearly, his intent was to kill and damage members of the group,” D.C. Metro Chief Robert Conte beforehand mentioned. “The suspect was capturing from north to south and was capturing at folks randomly.”

Contee mentioned the bullets used from the weapons discovered had “the capability to journey for an prolonged distance.”