Two Wounded In Shooting Near National Zoo

Two Men Shot Near National Zoo During Annual Easter Monday Family Event
WASHINGTON - APRIL 21:Patrons leave the National Zoo after it was closed due to a shooting near the Connecticut Avenue entrance to the Smithsonian National Zoo on Monday, April 21, 2013. Police say a group of people were walking southbound on Connecticut Avenue across from the zoo when a person produced a handgun and fired several rounds injuring two.(Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - APRIL 21:Patrons leave the National Zoo after it was closed due to a shooting near the Connecticut Avenue entrance to the Smithsonian National Zoo on Monday, April 21, 2013. Police say a group of people were walking southbound on Connecticut Avenue across from the zoo when a person produced a handgun and fired several rounds injuring two.(Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Two men were shot Monday afternoon in the midst of a knot of people on Connecticut Avenue NW near the National Zoo, site of an annual Easter event that drew thousands of people over the course of the day.

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