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School was in sniper’s ‘crosshairs,’ but link is unclear, D.C. chief says

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Updated April 26, 2022 at 12:19 p.m. EDT|Published April 25, 2022 at 1:25 p.m. EDT
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, center, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Christopher Geldart display guns seized by police at a news conference April 25. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said the sniper who sprayed bullets across the Van Ness neighborhood in Northwest Washington on Friday had his sights on a nearby private school, firing more than 200 bullets out his apartment window, with about 800 unspent rounds in his residence.

“The school was certainly in his crosshairs,” Contee said, referring to the shooter as a “lone-wolf sniper.”