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Yellow caution tape blocked off Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Sunday afternoon following a quadruple shooting. "It is pathetic because you can't live in peace. You can't even walk up and down the street without fearing for your life because there could be a shooting any time of the day," said one woman.
WASHINGTON - Police are investigating a shooting Sunday afternoon on MLK Jr. and Malcolm X Ave in Southeast D.C.
Police say the call came in right after 3:45 p.m. for a shooting in the area. When police arrived, they found three men with gunshot wounds. A fourth man connected to the shooting walked into a nearby hospital.
FOX 5 has learned that four men involved in the shooting are in the hospital "conscious and breathing" and are expected to be okay.
Police say they are looking for the suspect's vehicle, described as a "black car, with an AR-15 sticking out the window."
"I'm sick and tired of the shooting," said a nearby resident who does not want to be identified. "It is pathetic because you can't live in peace. You can't even walk up and down the street without fearing for your life because there could be a shooting any time of the day."
As police were gathering evidence at the scene, one ANC commissioner was handing out meals at a park across the street.
It's something she does every Sunday with support from local non-profits.
"Even in the midst of what is happening here. The show must continue because the whole point is to change the culture," said ANC 8C04 commissioner, Erica Green.
She says this specific area is hurting.
Almost two years ago, just feet away from the crime scene, a bullet hit and killed a 6-year-old girl who was walking on the street with her father.
"It's very sad, I think we owe Nyiah Courtney and the family who is devastated by her loss, we owe her continued effort to change the culture," Green adds.
She says the only way to change the culture is to be present.
"We are combating gun violence; we are combating a broken culture. What happened here today is symptomatic of why we need to continue to do what we do here," she adds.
As leaders work to help put an end to the violence, one neighbor says getting home safe every day is a blessing.
"It is pathetic because you can't live in peace, you can't even walk up and down the street without fearing for your life because there could be a shooting any time of the day," she adds.
A second shooting in Southeast also occurred Sunday evening, less than a mile from the shooting on MLK Ave., according to police.
Police say the victim in that shooting is also conscious and breathing. The motive for the shooting is still unknown.