3 Wounded in NW; Girl, 1, Grazed in NE

Three people were shot in Northwest Washington early yesterday, and a 1-year-old girl was wounded in Northeast last night, bringing to 10 the number of separate shooting incidents in the District since late Thursday, police said.

Police said the girl's foot was grazed by a stray bullet. She was sitting outside in the 1200 block of 18th Street NE about 8:00 p.m., when witnesses reported the sound of a gunshot. Police found bullet fragments near where the girl sat.

According to an account given to police, a bag fell to the ground nearby, possibly from a stroller. A gun, apparently inside the bag, then discharged, according to the account.

Earlier yesterday, investigators arrested Daron Garvin, 25, in connection with one of the three attacks in Northwest -- a shooting outside a New York Avenue nightclub in which a 26-year-old woman was hit in the left thigh.

Police are investigating the other shootings, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a spokesman.

In a statement issued Friday night, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier addressed the cluster of shootings that occurred late Thursday and early Friday, saying that they "are unacceptable" and that patrols would be stepped up in the affected areas.

The shooting in front of the nightclub Avenue, less than a block east of the Washington Convention Center, occurred at 2:34 a.m. yesterday.

Garvin sped away in a maroon Cadillac, which officers chased when they later spotted him driving on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. After Garvin's car struck a utility pole, police arrested him and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon.

Twenty minutes before that shooting, a 25-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 3400 block of 18th Street SE. The man, who was not identified, told police that he heard gunfire, looked down and realized that he had been wounded.

Two hours later, a 29-year-old man drove himself to a District hospital with a gunshot wound to his face. The circumstances of that shooting remain unclear, and Gentile declined to identify the hospital because the victim is a witness.

The child who was wounded was not identified. A neighbor said she was known as "Ladybug."

Yesterday's violence came after police said 11 people had been wounded in six separate shootings late Thursday and early Friday east of the Anacostia River. The victims were expected to survive.

Those shootings occurred in a two-hour period that started at 10:45 p.m. in Northeast and ended at 12:50 a.m. in Southeast. Four people were hit in one of the incidents.

It was not clear if any of the incidents were related.

Gentile said that police planned to add officers to patrols last night and early today in the 6th and 7th police districts, embracing neighborhoods east of the Anacostia.

Staff writers Martin Weil and Michelle Betton contributed to this report.