that mission with our interagency partners to include the Department of Homeland Security,

Secret Service, ATF, DEA, and we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter.

The Metropolitan Police Department and their skills in investigating homicides and gun shootings

in this city is exceptional. We will work together collaboratively because this is a matter

of national security, because it's a matter of national security, because

this is a matter of pride.

President Trump has been informed.

We've been in contact with the White House.

We will share we will shortchange the American public with no resources to make sure

we find and safeguard our nation's capital right here in Washington, D.C.,

and bring anyone responsible for this heinous act

of violence to justice. I would lastly like to add to the American public in the world.

Please send your prayers to those brave warriors who are in critical condition and their families.

They are here serving our country. They are here protecting everyday Americans and

citizens around the world in our nation's capital. They are the heroes of this day, and we must

remember them on this day and every day and their families and the sacrifice they have made.

I will now turn it over to Chief Carroll, the Metropolitan Police Department. Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jeff Carroll. I'm the Executive Assistant Chief

here at the Metropolitan Police Department. At approximately 2.15 this afternoon, members

of the D.C. National Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and I Street

Northwest. When a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm,

and discharged at the National Guard members. The National Guard members, there were other members

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