Edmund Burke School shooting
| Edmund Burke School shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Van Ness, Washington, D.C. |
| Date | April 22, 2022 (EST) |
Attack type | School shooting, sniper attack |
| Victim | Children of Edmund Burke School and Van Ness residents |
| Perpetrator | Raymond Spencer |
On April, 22, 2022, a resident of an adjacent apartment building fired more than 239 shots indiscriminately toward the Edmund Burke School in the Van Ness neighborhood of Washington, D.C., wounding a 12-year-old, two adults in their vehicles, and a school security guard. The shooting took place across the street from the student center of the University of the District of Columbia. Multiple law enforcement agencies led an intensive area lockdown for more than five hours that ended after the 23 year-old suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police breached the apartment door. He was identified as Fairfax, Virginia resident Raymond Spencer.
During the incident, the gunman posted a video of the shooting on 4chan and edited the school's Wikipedia page to report the incident. About five hours later, police found and breached the apartment of the gunman; they found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Spencer had over 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his apartment.[1][2]
See also
[edit]- D.C. sniper attacks, a sniper attack that terrorized the D.C. metropolitan area, including D.C. and Maryland, and left a middle school boy wounded at his school
References
[edit]- ^ Hermann, Peter; Hilton, Jasmine; Kunkle, Fredrick (April 23, 2022). "Raymond Spencer left an online footprint after D.C. shooting". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Hermann, Peter (May 12, 2022). "Inside the race to find the gunman raining bullets on a D.C. school". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 15, 2022.