The shooting took place at about 10:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a small row of businesses on the 3500 block of Wheeler Road SE, including a convenience store and a liquor store.

Semere Abraha, who owns the Holiday Market convenience store, was stocking loaves of bread near the entrance when the shots were fired and several people rushed inside for cover.

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In surveillance video footage of the parking lot, captured by Abraha’s security system and viewed by The Washington Post, a young man can be seen sprinting for the store, making it to the entrance and placing his hand on the door handle before he falls to the ground motionless, glass exploding and showering around him.

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The shooter stepped out of the front passenger seat of a car that had pulled into the parking lot and idled at the exit as he opened fire with what police later described as a “long gun or rifle.” Police were searching for the car: a light-colored, four-door sedan in an older model last seen headed south on Wheeler Road SE.

Abraha, who has owned and operated Holiday Market for five years, was outside the store Sunday afternoon, sweeping up glass and scrubbing down the pavement. He said he himself had narrowly avoided the bullets, which left holes in the Rap Snacks Wavy potato chips and two-liter bottles of orange Crush displayed near the front of the store.

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Officers called to the scene found the boy, and he was later pronounced dead. Shortly afterward, the three female victims showed up at a hospital, police said.

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It was the second fatal shooting to take place in front of the store in seven months. D.C. resident Malik McCloud, 19, was killed there last October.

Crystal Pimble, 53, who lives in a rowhouse next to the parking lot where the shooting took place, said she heard gunfire Sunday morning and came outside to see “a boy slumped on the ground.”

Pimble, who has a trampoline in her driveway and said she often hosts her grandchildren and other neighborhood children, said she believes violence in her neighborhood is the worst it’s been in the 15 years she has lived there.