Search For Shooter Of DC Police Officer

The search for the person who shot a DC police officer continues this morning.  The officer was shot around 9 o’clock Sunday night in Columbia Heights.  DC Police Chief Robert Contee says officers were responding to a call of a suspicious person.  Once they arrived a suspect began shooting at them.   After the shooting, police say the suspect barricaded in a building in the 14-hundred block of Quincy Street.  That suspect was not found.  The wounded officer has been released from the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.