WASHINGTON — A man was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. overnight, ending D.C.'s homicide-free streak at 12 days.

Just after 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a report of a shooting on the 300 block of Anacostia Road SE. When they arrived, they found the man, injured from a gunshot. He was brought to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries.

This breaks the nearly two-week stretch without any homicides in the city. President Donald Trump took credit for the no-homicide streak Monday from the Oval Office, attributing the stretch to his federal policing surge in D.C. The surge began Aug. 7, with federal agents patrolling D.C. streets, and the National Guard was deployed to the District and Metropolitan Police Department was federalized on Aug. 11.

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