The streets of Northeast D.C. reverberated with the echoes of gunfire in late September, an occurrence that has become all too familiar. The Metropolitan Police Department reported an incident wherein a man was shot at while leaving the 500 block of 60th Street. While the discharged rounds marred his vehicle, the intended target emerged unscathed.
Following the September 26 event, there was a swift investigation by the Sixth District officers. Making contact shortly after midnight, the victim, shaken yet unharmed, recounted the harrowing experience. The shooter, now identified as 40-year-old Dominic Lewis Hansberry of Northeast, D.C., remained at large until recently. Striking the car with bullets and shooting at the victim, his freedom was as short-lived as the silence that night.
The breakthrough in the case came nearly two months after the incident, leading to an arrest on November 12. In a display of investigatory precision, MPD officers apprehended Hansberry, linking him to the series of offenses. He has been charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun), Unregistered Firearm, and Unregistered Ammunition, as the Metropolitan Police Department announced. The gun believed to have been used in the offense was also recovered.
