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Police quickly sealed off Holocaust Museum after shooting
KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde says police quickly sealed off the museum after the shooting.
Kitty Felde: "I’m about a block and a half away from the Holocaust Museum, in front of the Department of Agriculture building. And police have cordoned the area off for about two blocks away on all sides. Helicopters are going overheard. There’s a whole group of fire department emergency personnel blocking the street.
"Police have been whizzing by every 5 to 10 minutes. But it’s sort of a surreal scene because you can see the Washington Monument in the background. You’ve got dozens and dozens of tourists who were ushered out of the museum on the perimeter area here. No information coming through, just some very agitated D.C. police barking at everyone to get behind the yellow tape."
Witnesses say school children who were visiting the Holocaust Museum ran out frightened after the shooting.
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