Man fatally shoots self in encounter with officers in D.C., police say

A man fatally shot himself after an encounter Monday night with D.C. police who were investigating gun shots fired on a street in Northwest Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, according to authorities. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. The incident began about 11:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Park Road NW, near a strip of stores along 14th Street a block from the Columbia Heights Metro Station. Leslie Parsons, an assistant D.C. police chief who heads the investigative...