Police investigating after DC Housing Authority sergeant shot while driving to work

WASHINGTON - A D.C. Housing Authority sergeant is in the hospital recovering after he was shot while driving to headquarters Tuesday evening. 

Police were called to the 1500 block of New York Avenue, Northeast, around 5 p.m. where they found the off-duty sergeant who had been struck by the bullet near the 2200 block of New York Avenue, Northeast, in his personal SUV while on the way to work.

Police did not say if the officer was in uniform at the time.

Detectives say at least five shots were fired from a silver two-door Honda Accord with heavy tinted windows and Maryland tags last seen on Montana Avenue, Northeast, headed toward the 1400 block of New York Avenue, Northeast.

The sergeant returned fire but police did not tell FOX 5 if the suspect’s vehicle was hit. 

D.C. Fire and EMS were called to the scene and began to treat the sergeant before he was taken to a nearby hospital. 

"We feel real bad about the situation. He’s in our prayers. We have contacted his family and we will continue to keep him in our prayers and wrap our arms around him and his family," said Steven Spencer, Deputy Chief of Police of the D.C. Housing Authority. 

FOX 5 asked Spencer if the incident was possibly an attempted carjacking or a road rage incident. He says investigators are trying to determine a motive as the sergeant remains hospitalized.

"Our thoughts are with him and his family. We don’t have any other updates at this time," the D.C. Housing Authority said in a statement. 

Anyone with information is asked to call police.