Multiple injured in 2 weekend shootings in NW DC

By Madeleine Simon
October 6, 2019 | 4:56 PM

Two shootings in Northwest D.C. injured multiple people in the past day.

Early Sunday afternoon, a teenage girl was shot in the leg by a teenager in Shaw.

The shooting happened around 2 p.m. on P Street NW near a Giant grocery store.

Police said the girl was shot multiple times but is expected to be OK.

On Saturday, a 19-year-old man was also shot in the leg on 7th and R streets in Shaw around 11:30 p.m.

Police said a woman was also cut by a piece of glass that broke loose from the rapid gunfire in that incident. Both people are expected to be OK.

Three cars and an apartment building window were damaged during the shooting.

Both suspects in each shooting fled the scene.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
September 1, 2026 | 10:36 AM

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.

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