{"id":1400,"date":"2026-10-19T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:36:48","slug":"national-guard-member-injured-in-dc-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"National Guard member injured in DC shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-10-19\/GETTY_101926_AMCULANCE_DC_STOCK.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Getty Images \/ Stock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington said early on Monday it was investigating a late-night shooting that involved members of the National Guard, one of whom was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Guard members had intervened in breaking up a fight at about 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the MPD said, adding that a person involved in that fight then allegedly began firing a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>A Guard member was shot in the leg by the individual, according to D.C. police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National Guard immediately gave commands to that individual to put down the gun.,&#8221; D.C. Interim Police Chief Jeffery W. Carroll <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DCPoliceDept\/status\/2112072633630212106?s=20\">told<\/a> reporters at the scene. &#8220;That individual then pointed the weapon towards National Guard members, who returned fire to the individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three Guard members returned fire, with at least one of them hitting the individual in the abdomen, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Guard member and a the person who allegedly fired at the members are being treated in local D.C. hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The suspect was placed under arrest, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred near the the 400 block of 8th Street SE, the force <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DCPoliceDept\/status\/2112053632694931878?s=20\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images \/ Stock Photo The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington said early on Monday it was investigating a late-night shooting that involved members of the National Guard, one of whom was injured. Guard members had intervened in breaking up a fight at about 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the MPD said, adding that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}