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The manhunt continues Sunday for a suspect wanted for the armed hijacking of an ambulance in Washington, D.C., as EMS personnel had been responding to name a couple of man down earlier this weekend.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) launched photos exhibiting the suspect, a Black man with a shaved head, goatee and carrying what seems to be a black sweatshirt, fleeing the scene and driving the stolen ambulance Saturday morning.
No arrest has been made as of Sunday shortly earlier than midday, a spokesperson for MPD instructed Fox News Digital, however the ambulance has since been recovered.
The incident occurred at roughly 8:52 a.m. Saturday within the space of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Chicago Street, Southeast, when a suspect approached D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel working an ambulance.
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DC Metropolitan Police Department Seventh District detectives search the general public’s help in figuring out and finding a suspect in armed hijacking of ambulance.
(DC Metro Police)
EMS had responded to the listed location for the report of a person down, in keeping with the police division’s preliminary press launch concerning the incident.
The suspect entered the again of the parked ambulance after which positioned his hand on a handgun that he was carrying in his waistband whereas making a risk in the direction of the victims, police stated. The DC Fire and EMS personnel exited the car, and the suspect fled the scene within the ambulance.
An ambulance drives via Washington, DC, on February 5, 2022.
(Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP by way of Getty Images))
The ambulance was later situated, police stated.
There had been no reported accidents to the DC Fire and EMS personnel.
Detectives from MPD’s Seventh District are in search of the general public’s help in figuring out and finding the suspect in reference to an armed carjacking (gun) offense.
Police stated anybody who can determine this particular person, or who has data of this incident ought to take no motion however name police at (202) 727-9099 or textual content a tip to the division’s TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.
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MPD at the moment affords a reward of as much as $10,000 to anybody who gives data that results in the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals accountable for a violent crime dedicated in D.C.
