Witness describes having gun pulled by man fleeing Shaw shooting scene - Washington Post

The witnesses were going about their business on a routine Saturday afternoon near the Shaw-Howard University Metro station. Minutes and blocks apart, each encountered a burgundy Chrysler 300, and each tried to stop the speeding car making a getaway. police said the Chrysler’s driver is a person of interest in a fatal shooting that occurred minutes earlier in front of the Metro stop at Seventh and S streets Northwest. On his escape, police said, the Chrysler’s driver rolled down his window and fired at one of the witnesses, then blocks away raised his head and hands through the car’s sunroof and waved a gun at the other witness. “I thought he was some kind of mad, crazy person,” said one of the witnesses, who, as a victim of a crime and a witness in a homicide case, spoke on the condition of anonymity. Neither of the people who encountered the Chrysler was struck or injured. And the people who saw the Chrysler didn’t know that they had just run into a possible suspect in the shooting that claimed the life of Matthew C. Shlonsky, a 23-year-old recent American University graduate. Police said they believe that the victim, who friends said was hit by a bullet while stepping out of a cab, was not the intended target. Source: www.washingtonpost.com