WASHINGTON 鈥擠.C. police are seeking information from anyone who may have seen a deadly shooting on northbound Interstate 295 during the Thursday morning rush hour.
One man聽is dead and another man is wounded after someone fired shots into the the car they were in. The shooting happened on聽northbound I-295 in D.C.聽near the Naval Research Laboratory exit before 9 a.m.
Thursday night, police identified the man who died as 50-year-old聽Pedro Melendez Alvarado, of Alexandria, Virginia.
Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier聽is asking anyone who called 911, or was on the stretch of road between 8:45 a.m. 聽and 8:55 a.m. to dial 911 or 202-727-9099, to speak with detectives.
“There were a number of shots that were fired, so somebody had to have seem something,”聽Assistant Chief Peter Newsham says.聽“We are thinking that during rush hour, that we probably had a lot of people who might have seen something.”
Lanier says the black SUV the victims were in has Virginia tags. She has not issued a description of the car that apparently shot into the SUV.
The shooting and subsequent investigation shut down I-295 in D.C.聽near the Naval Research Laboratory exit. The northbound lanes of I-295 reopened at about 1 p.m. 聽after it was closed for more than three hours.聽The ramps from the inner and outer loops of the Capitol Beltway to northbound I-295 have also reopened to traffic.
Initially,聽Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the shooting appeared to be a road rage incident. However, she later told it did not appear to be聽road rage.
鈥淲e have nothing right now to indicate there was any confrontation,鈥� Lanier said to The Washington Post. 鈥淩ight now, it does not look like road rage. The vehicle involved followed [the victims] from Virginia, before they entered the District.鈥�
