How rare was D.C.’s 12 days homicide-free? Not as rare as Trump says.

A man was fatally shot in Southeast Washington just after midnight Tuesday, snapping D.C.’s 12-day stretch without a homicide, an unusually long respite from violence for which President Donald Trump claimed credit at a news conference Monday.

“In the last 11 days we’ve had no murders and that’s the first time that’s taken place in years actually, years,” Trump said Monday morning, though city crime statistics show otherwise.

D.C. went 16 days without a homicide earlier this year, from Feb. 24 to March 13. But even 10 days without a killing is rare in the city, occurring once this year before Trump’s takeover of D.C. police and once in January of last year. The 16-day streak earlier this year was the longest in at least six years.