Inside the race to find the gunman raining bullets on a D.C. school

5/12/22
 
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from The Washington Post,
5/12/22:

When the first booms ripped along the line of bumper-to-bumper cars waiting for students leaving the Edmund Burke School for the day, William James Peterson thought construction scaffolding had collapsed.

But a deafening second round of blasts left the military-trained, veteran D.C. police officer with no doubt: It was gunfire. He sprinted from a garage to a lane between buildings where the line of parents picking up their children forms.

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