DC Special Officer Shot, Dies In Her Neighborhood After Refusing Police Commands: DC Chief

UPDATE 4 P.M.

WASHINGTON, DC — DC police said A woman who was fatally shot is not registered as a special police officer and is believed to have shot another woman, whom she was familiar with, reports said Saturday.

Initially, reports said a recently hired special police officer was shot and killed by Metropolitan DC police officer Saturday morning following a disturbance in a Northwest DC neighborhood where another woman was shot, police said.

The woman, who had recently begun working for a security company, was wearing a uniform with a name that was not hers, Chief Robert Contee III told The Washington Post.

Preliminary findings show the woman, whose name has not been released, did not drop the weapon she was holding after multiple commands, according to Brianna Burch, a police spokeswoman, the Post reported.

The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, which is a routine action, Burch told a reporter.

Neither of the women have yet been identified.

DC Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said the shooting happened when police answered a 911 call about a shooting on the 800 block of Crittenden Street, NW.

When officers arrived, they found a woman with a gunshot wound to the arm. While officers were tending to her, other officers found the second woman, dressed in a special officer's uniform, on the front porch of a nearby home, smashing the windows.

The woman in the special officer's uniform, who was armed with a handgun, was ordered to the ground but did not comply with the order, Contee said.

"She ultimately was shot by a Metro DC officer," Contee said. Officers rendered first aid but the woman died at the scene, he said.

Both women live in the 800 block of Crittenden, Contee said, in different homes. Neither lives at the address where the woman was smashing the windows, he said, and other than all being neighbors, the connections among the two were still under investigation.

Contee said police also are trying to sort out the details regarding the reputed special officer's employment. She had been hired recently, he said, but he said the uniform she was wearing Saturday morning had a name that did not match her name.

Police also were trying to determine whether the handgun she had, which was recovered at the scene, was issued to her for work.

"We have to see if she was licensed as a security guard," Contee said, adding later, "some special officers are licensed to carry weapons."

"We are still combing through information to get to the bottom of this," he said.

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