Yesterday, the U.S. Park Police were involved in a shooting of a District resident at 2nd and K Streets NE. The shooting took place in the early afternoon.

Davin Tarr was home working on his taxes. He was sitting on his couch in his 11th Floor apartment on Eye Street between 2nd and Third, he says, when he heard a pop, pop, pop.

And then Tarr heard another pop, pop, pop. "There were two bursts of them, pretty close together," he recalls.

This wasn't the normal city noises he was used to. Tarr decided to see what was going on outside his window.  According to the park police, Tarr apparently heard the officers fire on Ronald Hughes after he allegedly struck one of the officers with his car.

Hughes managed to drive off. Tarr was able to capture his failed escape.

Tarr grabbed his Nikon D300 and began snapping away at the scene below which he posted on Flickr. The photos have generated a fair amount of comments as they detail the standoff between Hughes and the Park Police.

Tarr's photo series shows Hughes attempting his getaway, sputtering into a wall and then driving down 2nd Street NE until a police cruiser boxes Hughes in. Hughes--who was injured in the shooting--is eventually dragged out of his car by his undershirt. "They were mostly trying to get his shirt off of him," Tarr says.

“At that point, he wasn’t putting up much resistance or anything," Tarr adds. "The cops were acting pretty professional in my layman’s opinion. They acted swiftly but carefully.”

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A note of thanks to all those who contributed to our Inauguration Flickr pool. Just eighteen days ago, we sent out a call for dope/avant-garde photographs chronicling this seminal/historic/generally rad moment in D.C. history. The pool swelled to a whopping 699 photographs, from which Darrow Montgomery somehow managed to extract the finest three...or four.

Winners, and details on the readers' poll, below the jump.

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An extremely rare feature, in which we recognize the contributions of our Flickr minions by way of distracting you from the fact that Riggs has neglected to write his Morning Roundup.

Thanks to all who entered our 2009 Inauguration Photo Contest. To date, we've collected 547 photo entries, many of which are reasonably dope. Selected awesomeness below.

But wait! Don't snickr. And certainly don't stop submitting your photos. Next week we kick off our "reader's choice" award, whereby the public makes its preference known via arcane e-voting mechanisms. Just think! If our hard-to-please prize committee passes over your artsy shots, the American people might well be your ticket to ephemeral fame & fabulous prizes!

Check back on Monday for voting details.

The first in a series of semi-random selections from our extensive D.C Inauguration flickr pool. Upload your photos to win the aforementioned fabulous prizes.

"Celebrate Pepsi-bama" by flickr user jsmjr

*More info on our photo contest available here.

Hey there, blogger studs! Amateur photogs! Anyone else with a camera phone and a few spare seconds!

City Paper is launching its 2009 Inauguration Photo Contest, in which local snapshooters compete for alt-weekly immortality and much-coveted prizes!

We're looking for a variety of shots from all around the city that document the preparations for, and the massive celebration of, Barack Obama's ever-so-historical special day!

[Prizes, and more info, below the jump.]

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That's the subject line of a Photobucket email. Remember Photobucket, one of the earlier photo & file sharing sites? Well, it seems that the site's not getting enough attention in an age of Flickrphilia.

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