Secret Service Responds To Shooting Near VP Kamala Harris’ Residence

The crime wave in Washington, D.C., spread immediately to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ home.

U.S. Secret Service agents responded to stories of a single bullet at 34th and Massachusetts Avenue NW, close to the US Naval Observatory, on Monday at around 1:30 am.

Crime scene elements were looking into the release of a firearm, according to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

Units from the crime scene are looking into the immediately discharge of a gun close to the Naval Observatory. The tower has not been targeted, and no safeguards have been affected. picture. twitter.com / WVurw9wsDn

— April 17, 2023, Anthony Guglielmi(@ SecretSvcSpox )

Lt. Paul Mayhair, another Secret Service official, added,” No one was reported to have been hurt, and there is currently no evidence that this affair was directed at any protectees or the Naval Observatory.”

JUST IN! @ SecretService has Crime Scene Investigators at the U.S. Naval Observatory’s’s entrance, where @ VP Kamala Harris resides. It’s’s unclear what kind of incident prompted the response, but on a Monday at 9am, rush hour traffic backed up significantly on Mass Ave. @ wusa9pic. twitter.com / LbShwo6SWA

— April 17, 2023, Eric Flack(@ EricFlackTV )

The incident occurred as the nation’s’s capital battled a recent increase in gun violence and crime in the district. According to Axios, there was a 40 % increase in reported violent crimes involving firearms between 2017, when there were 1, 573, and last year, when the number increased to 2, 203.

Officials and their employees have fallen victim to violence in recent days. Angie Craig, a House Democrat from Minnesota, gained notoriety after being brutally attacked in an elevator at her apartment complex in Washington, D.C. Sen. Rand Paul’s’s( R-Ky ) staff member was stabbed at random.

According to a Washington Post state, the U.S. lawyer in Washington, D.C., decided not to charge 67 % of those detained there last year. D. C. Police Chief Robert Contree III was cited as saying,” Of course we are concerned.” ” We think every person we detain ought to be off the streets.”

Despite these worries, D. C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson insisted that there isn’t a murder problems in Washington when he appeared before the House Oversight Committee late last month. He said this after President Joe Biden signed a bill several weeks ago that repealed the city’s’s criminal code, which Republicans and other critics had criticized for being too lenient on crime.

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Highways around the crossing outside the Naval Observatory were temporarily closed as a result of the ongoing evaluation, the Secret Service announced on Monday.

Over the weekend, Harris and her father, Doug Emhoff, paid a surprise visit to an abortion rights protest in Los Angeles. Harris reportedly remained in California on Monday, according to a number of writers.

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