Metro Police confirmed in an email to Homicide Watch this morning that the victim of a shooting in Anacostia early Saturday morning is 18-year-old Antonio Wade of the 5700 block of Blaine Street NE.
Wade was found inside a car in the 1700 block of 14th Street SE with a gunshot wound at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11. D.C. Fire and EMS transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Four other people were found shot near where Wade was found, police said. There is no word on their conditions.
Twitter and Facebook messages from that night refer to a party in that area where a shooting occurred.
Metro Police’s original press release is here.
According to his Facebook profile, Wade is a 2009 graduate of H.D. Woodson High School. Friends of Wade have left memorial messages on his wall since early Saturday.
