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Police Take Female Suspect of DC Shooter Situation Into Custody

© AFP 2023 / JIM WATSON A security guard (C) is escorted out of a building on 19th and K Street NW in Washington, DC, November 16, 2015, by DC Metropolitan Police during a barricade situation
A security guard (C) is escorted out of a building on 19th and K Street NW in Washington, DC, November 16, 2015, by DC Metropolitan Police during a barricade situation - Sputnik International
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A female suspect was arrested in connection to Washington shootings which happened earlier in the day, DC police spokeswoman told Sputnik.

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US Police Block Area in Washington DC in Response to Shooter Situation
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Police took a woman suspected of causing a shooter situation in downtown Washington, DC on Monday into custody, the Washington DC Police Department's spokeswoman told Sputnik.

Earlier in the day, an armed person in alleged mental health crisis barricaded in an office building near the White House in the northwest of Washington DC. Several blocks near the busy interception where the incident was developing had been closed.

"There one person in custody, an adult female," DC police spokeswoman Aquita Brown told Sputnik after the situation had been contained.

Brown also told Sputnik that so far there had been "no reported injuries."

According to media reports, the suspect was taken into custody around 10:45 a.m. local time (15:45 GMT).

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