At least three people were injured in a shooting near a college preparatory school in Washington DC on Friday, with police still combing the area in search of suspects. Two of the victims, a man and a woman found wounded near the Edmund Burke School, a private preparatory academy, were hospitalized in critical but stable condition, and a juvenile victim suffered a minor gunshot wound, according to assistant police chief Stuart Emerman. He said police fanned out across the neighborhood looking for possible perpetrators, but had no immediate description of any suspect. Emerman said several individuals seen fleeing the scene were briefly detained for questioning but none were believed to have been involved. “At this time, I do not believe that we have any suspects detained,” Emerman said. “We’re looking for any suspect or suspects. We do not have a motive at this time,” Emerman told reporters. “We do not know the full details of what took place. But we continue to ask the public to just steer clear of the area as we continue to investigate.” Dozens of law enforcement officers responded to the scene, near Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness Street in the Van Ness neighborhood. The incident was just down the road from Howard University Law School. One eyewitness told local television station WUSA-TV he heard a burst of rapid gunfire lasting about a minute, and saw a woman running out of a building who appeared to have been grazed by a gunshot, followed by other individuals who were apparently wounded. The eyewitness said he saw other people on the street taking cover behind parked cars and pointing up to a balcony where they presumably believed the gunshots originated. Video posted on Twitter captured the sound of bursts of rapid gunfire. One witness, identified by a local reporter as Austin Bittle, said he was in a nearby coffee shop when he heard more than 20 gunshots ring out in quick succession before seeing police officers racing toward the scene. News footage on local television showed Connecticut Avenue blockaded by emergency vehicles. Dozens of police vehicles, with flashing lights, were parked outside the school building, as police in full tactical gear and some in camouflage assembled nearby. “It was madness. I mean, it’s just unbelievable,” Jade Moore, an Edmund Burke parent, told WJLA of the incident, which she said left her daughter huddled inside a classroom until police escorted her and other students to a safer part of the campus. “You know, you think they’re safe, but you’re not safe anywhere.” The upscale neighborhood is also home to several foreign embassies, and the Van Ness campus of the University of the District of Columbia, which said on Twitter that it had been placed on a security lockdown. A second well-known prep school, the Sidwell Friends School, also was reported by local media to be on lockdown. The University of the District of Columbia went into lockdown, telling students and staff to shelter in place.