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police say this is a warning to people in this neighborhood that they need to be vigilant not just when they re on the streets, but when they re in their home. make sure your doors are locked. do make sure your windows are down. leave the light on outside. watch out for your neighbors. we d rather come out and investigate something than for you to have something that seemed suspicious, but you weren t sure whether or not you should report to it. reporter: the only description police are working with right now is this is a man who had a black coat on with a hood up. he may be driving a four-door tan sedan. they re asking anyone in the arlington area who early sunday morning or late saturday night may have seen something suspicious to give them a call. news4. now to a developing story in the district where police are on the scene of a deadly shooting. a young man was shot and earlier this afternoon along texas avenue southeast just off east capital street. the shoot ....
in violence in the district as police try to figure out what s behind the spree of shootings yesterday. a man and woman gunned down just a few blocks away from each other and a few hours apart. those two murders among five shootings we saw across the city yesterday. let s go right to pat collins. he s live in southeast with more on the story. pat? jim, police believe that second-chance criminals with the history of violence and access to guns are responsible for the spike in violence in our city. what is with all of the broad daylight violence in our city? what is driving it? you know, i wish i could tell you. it s a small number of people that have no regard for other people. it was noon that tayvon companyings was shot ask killed. cummings has been picked up on a number of gun charges in the lth when he was killed yesterday. four hours later, five blocks away, tracy cooper shot and killed outside her home on 49th street southeast. she was a good person. woul ....
about this threat. news never stops on news 4. we will let you know on the latest on the search of the robot of the white pickup truck behind me and we will post the information on the nbc washington app and facebook and twitter on nbc washington. live here on the national mall, i m shomari stone, news 4. troubling new details tonight about a shooting that left a 7-year-old boy wounded in the district. that comes on the heels of a violent day in the district. two people killed in five separate shootings yesterday. pat collins in southeast as police try to track down suspects. pat? reporter: broad daylight gun violence in our city. in this case the victim is a 7-year-old boy. in this case, police say the boy was with adults. in this case they say when the bullets started flying the adults ran away and left the boy alone. you thoughtha was going to die, didn t you? i did. i did. my heart i tried so hard to keep his eyes open and i was praying so loud and she ....
county firefighter died. erika gonzalez was live at the conference. reporter: these are female firefighters and paramedics saying they reached out to the media because they wanted to see the positive come back into the light and said they would only speak to us about their positive experiences with the fairfax county fire department. as a woman i am not afraid to come to work, and i am not ashamed to be a member of this fire department. reporter: firefighter paramedic alicia is one of the members of the fairfax county fire department that chose to speak out today, disheartened, she said, by the way the department is being portrayed. the spotlight on the department was cast about a month ago after the suicide of firefighter paramedic nicole mittendorff and allegations that disparaging comments were being written about her by co-workers on an anonymous online platform. the washington post reports last week the fire official in charge of professional s morgan, was ....
and morris street, a gray car crashed in the curb. it s believed to be the victim s car, but it s unclear as to exactly how this car figures into this shooting scenario. can you tell us what police are doing to track down the suspects? we have officers going door to door canvassing. reporter: the police chief was here as well as a number of high-ranking officials as detectives and csi techs look for clues and evidence. also here today, the council woman from ward eight. what s going on in our city? if i knew the answer to what s going on, we d stop it and we d solve it. we re trying to figure out how to address the issue, how do we involve the community more to make sure senseless crime like this stops. reporter: yet another strange development. police arrest the son of monday s daytime murder victims. he s charged with threatening to kill a man he believed killed his mother monday afternoon. i ll have more on that coming up at 6:00. jim, back to you. pat ....