Mike Gill, a former Trump administration official, was hospitalized after being shot during a carjacking in Washington D.C.

An unnamed suspect shot the married father of three on K Street around 5:45 p.m. Monday.

The Daily Mail reports Gill was shot inside his car while picking up his wife.

He collapsed after getting out of the car.

Gill served as the chief operating officer of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the Trump administration.

He reportedly remains in critical condition.

The Daily Wire reports:

“We can confirm that Mike Gill was the victim of the shooting at the 900 block of K Street Northwest on Monday evening and is in critical condition. Out of respect for the family, we have nothing additional to add at this time,” Erica Richardson, a spokesperson for the Gill family, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.

After shooting Gill, the same man is believed to have conducted at least two carjackings and one attempted carjacking, and the victim of one of them has died, The Washington Post reported.

Police said the perpetrator got into the parked vehicle and shot the victim before fleeing on foot, and that the victim — Gill — collapsed outside the vehicle. The Post said that he had called his wife to say, “Hey, I’m downstairs,” and when she arrived at the ground floor, he had been shot, with the wife rushing out and saying, “Oh my God, that’s my husband.”

The carjacking suspect reportedly was shot and killed early Tuesday morning.

Per 7News:

Around 4:30 a.m., the New Carrollton Police Department (NCPD) said the shooting, involving two of its officers, occurred near a laundromat at 7575 Annapolis Road. NCPD said the man was taken into custody and to the hospital, where he later died.

It was revealed later by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll that the suspect was involved in several incidents including a deadly carjacking in D.C.

Daily Mail added:

Gill’s work in government dates back to at least 2016, when the city of Washington appointed him to represent the GOP on their Board of Elections.

He also served as the chief of staff to CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo and was Chief Regulatory Reform Officer for the commission.

The carjacker went on a spree that spanned both Washington DC and Maryland and left at least one man dead, in addition to Gill’s injuries.

The suspect made a third unsuccessful attempt to carjack a vehicle on Third Street NE, before taking the car of a person he shot, in this case fatally.

Family members identified the victim as 35-year-old Alberto Vazquez, according to NBC Washington.

The same suspect is then said to have shot and killed the owner of a Chrysler 200 before stealing the car.

Police officers in New Carrollton, Maryland, a suburb of DC, shot the suspect dead this morning. He has not yet been named, Fox5DC reported.

 

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