NYE Gunfire Near Barracks Row Unsettles Neighbors

This out-of-state vehicle was struck multiple times for gunfire last night.

And this one was struck twice.

Here a photo of the 800 block of E Street, SE, looking toward Barracks Row

NYE Gunfire Near Barracks Row Unsettles Neighbors

by Larry Janezich

Posted January 1, 2026

Just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, residents were alarmed as gunfire erupted on the 800 block of E Street, SE.  First mistaking it for fireworks, one resident commented that the shots were accompanied by the sounds of metal striking metal.  As it turned out, that sound was the sounds of multiple bullets striking parked cars and it appeared that they had been fired toward 8^th Street. There were no reported injuries.

Members of the National Guard who had been patrolling Barracks Row were on the scene within minutes but it is unclear what exactly they saw or how they reacted to the shots.  One witness said that the Guard reportedly saw a Mercedes leaving the scene, westbound toward 8^th Street. 

1^st District MPD showed up and recovered a dozen or so bullet casings.  One vehicle on the north side of the block with an out-of-state license was struck several times.  It had been removed by early Thursday morning.  A vehicle parked in front of that car was hit twice, one ricocheting off the roof in the direction of 8^th Street.

Residents of the block have complained to ANC6B that patrons of Café 8 on Barracks Row park on the block and after leaving Café 8 continue conversations and playing music outside of their parked cars late at night, prompting residents to sometimes call the police.  Café 8 has posted signs in their windows urging departing patrons to respect the residences on nearby streets.