WASHINGTON, DC – October 19, 2026 (STL.News) A National Guard member was wounded late Sunday night after troops attempted to intervene in a street fight in Washington, D.C., triggering an exchange of gunfire that also injured the suspected shooter and prompted an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department. The shooting occurred at approximately 11:10 p.m. Sunday, October 18, in the 400 block of 8th Street SE, near Eastern Market in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. According to Metropolitan Police Department Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll, approximately seven or eight National Guard members were inside a van when they observed

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