Young woman fatally shot in D.C. hotel was on holiday break from college

Ashlei Hinds didn’t typically go out. But, home on Christmas break from Louisiana State University, her family said, the 18-year-old freshman agreed to accompany her best friend to a New Year’s Eve party at a D.C. hotel. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. One hour and 18 minutes into 2024, a person fired a gunshot during a dispute involving people who Hinds’s family said had crashed the party, at the Embassy Suites hotel on Military Road NW. Hinds...