Two people were killed and five others injured in a shooting Sunday morning at Seventh and P streets NW, D.C. police said.

Officers, responding to reports of a shooting about 3 a.m. Sunday, found two men with gunshot wounds who died at the scene, according to a police news release.

The two slain men were identified by police Sunday night as Anthony Brown, 32, of Southeast, and Jay Lucks, also 32, of Baltimore.

Authorities found four more adults who were shot and transported them to hospitals. A fifth injured adult walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound, police said.

The scene of the shooting is near the Kennedy Recreation Center. Police said in a social media post that they were searching for a male assailant of average build, wearing light pants and a blue shirt, who was “last seen on foot south bound on 7th Street NW.” They did not release any additional information on a suspect or a motive.

On Sunday morning, police closed a stretch of Seventh Street. But by noon, the crime scene had shrunk to a square of brick sidewalk on P Street NW, cordoned off with police tape.

A woman in a black jacket — labeled with DFS, which stands for the Department of Forensic Sciences — took photos of a yellow placard, marked “1.” As she snapped on blue gloves, tucking evidence into an envelope, tennis balls thwacked on a nearby court, where two men in pale shorts were enjoying the crisp spring morning. Across the street, near a vacant lot bordered by a chain-link fence, three men lined a bench, watching the scene. The people in the area had heard news of the shooting in the wee hours but said they were not around when it happened.

Nearby was a playground with swings and a blue tube slide. Apartments there are stacked atop ground-floor businesses, including a Thai restaurant and a pet store.

The shooting occurred about three blocks north of the Mount Vernon Square Metro station and on the same weekend that police rolled out drug-free zones in the city. The neighborhood has seen violence before. In September last year, just a block and a half away, two people died in a triple shooting.

The total number of killings in D.C. so far this year is down compared with the same period in 2023. Police are investigating 30 homicides this year, compared with 47 last year through March 15, according to the latest available police data.