One man is dead and another man is severely wounded after an unknown person fired shots into the the car they were in. The shooting happened sometime before 9:00 a.m. on northbound I-295 near the Naval Research Laboratory exit. The man who died was identified as 50-year-old Pedro Melendez Alvarado, of Alexandria, Virginia. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier stated that the black SUV the victims were in had Virginia tags. She has not issued a description of the vehicle that had allegedly shot into the SUV. The shooting and subsequent investigation led to the shut down of I-295. The northbound lanes re-opened at about 1:00 p.m. after it was closed for more than three hours. The ramps from the inner and outer loops of the Capitol Beltway to I-295 also re-opened to traffic. Initially, Lanier added that the shooting appeared to be a case of road rage. However, she later told The Washington Post that particular theory had been shot down.
