DC Police Looking for Info on Explosions Blocks from Capitol

Police in Washington, D.C., are looking for a suspect or suspects who set off an “explosive device” at a bank ATM and a Nike store and threw “a Molotov cocktail style object” at a grocery store several blocks apart early Sunday morning.

All three incidents “caused damage to the location,” police said.

Investigators said they were looking for suspects and the vehicle or vehicles they fled the scenes in, but provided no description of the vehicles or suspects.

“In each of these offenses, it appears the suspect targeted commercial establishments and it does not appear the suspect was targeting any members of the public,” police said. “The establishments were closed at the time of the offenses. There were no reported injuries as a result of these offenses.”

The first incident, on the sidewalk outside a Truist Bank ATM on Washington Place, took place at about 4:30 a.m. Six minutes later, the second “explosive device” went off in front of the doors of a Nike Store on H Street, a few blocks from the US Capitol and Union Station and about a mile and a half south of the ATM.

The third incident was at a Safeway grocery story on 40th Street, about two and a half miles from the Nike Store. It took place at about 4:45 a.m.

The suspect or suspects “fled the scene in a vehicle” in all three incidents.

DC police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives have offered a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions. Anyone with information should call police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department’s TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.

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[Featured image: Truist ATM/Google Maps]