10-12 gunshots heard near tenleytown

Submitted by _Cyberostrich_ t3_11y1cqo in washingtondc

I heard gunshots outside of Tenleytown and I am wondering if anyone else heard them.

Time: ≈8:30pm

location: direction of Fort Reno, I was located across the street from the "Earle Douglass park" on Reno road about 3 blocks away

I heard 6 shots with a 15-20 second pause followed by 5

sirens shortly after

I have no frame of reference for how close it was but it sounded quite close in the direction of Tenleytown

I now have another source who heard it as well from 0.7 miles out near chevy chase circle and agrees with the shot pattern

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hearshot t1_jd5unvq wrote

Dirt bikes/ATVs heading down Wisconsin

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_Cyberostrich_ OP t1_jd5v9ei wrote

I have heard those groups before those things are quite loud I don't think I heard any of those things this time but I may have just tuned it out.

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blind__panic t1_jd7zw83 wrote

There’s one particular group that purposely backfires their ATVs and it can sound like gunfire. I think that’s what this person was suggesting.

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_Cyberostrich_ OP t1_jd842m4 wrote

Possibly but family members heard it from nearly a mile away so I'm not sure

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blind__panic t1_jd85xfr wrote

I’d fully believe gunshots, but also I lived next to a place where the ATV asshats used to love to ride, and you could hear it for 5 mins before and 5 mins after they went past.

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_Cyberostrich_ OP t1_jd8n3a8 wrote

Yeah I'm really not sure what it was could really have been either

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The_Center t1_jd6pd6w wrote

I’m a half block from Ft Reno and they were definitely in this vicinity - I heard them loud and clear in the same pattern. There was also a group of dirt bikes going around beforehand. They had been going up and down Wisc Ave a few times tonight - back and forth btw Tenleytown and Friendship, not just passing through. I’m shocked there hasn’t been more chatter on Twitter or Nextdoor

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debyrne t1_jd7lzhm wrote

Y’all ever heard of next door?

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