The fire began when someone was cooking in an apartment in the 1300 block of 5th Street NW.
A juvenile who was in the car was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The man lunged for his dropped cellphone and ended up in the trash chute of his apartment building.
Police have arrested a man in the shooting death of a woman in Southeast.
Elanis Milfort was 6 months old when she suffered head trauma in 2006, police said.
Authorities say the open case is now considered a homicide.
Walter Clark’s body was found in Thomasine Bennett’s closet in her Northeast D.C. apartment.
Police did not provide a motive for the incident but said a suspect was arrested.
The suspect was a cook and a driver at KinderCare Learning Center in Montgomery County.
Longtime Virginia prosecutor who died of leukemia remembered as exacting, but also funny.
The suspect also was linked to a bank robbery Monday near Farragut Square.
A warning light prompted the landing at a medical center three miles from Joint Base Andrews.
The 26-year-old victim was found unconscious in the 1000 block of 17th Street NE.
