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.”

Tarr adds that the police held Hughes in place until paramedics arrived a short time later.

Of Hughes, Tarr says: "I think he was basically surrendering at that point. He got down on the ground without any struggle. The cops didn’t do anything with him. They just made sure he stayed there. It looks more dramatic in the photos.”

After Tarr's photos hit the web, he says he got an e-mail from a U.S. Park Police detective. The police asked for copies of his pictures. Tarr says he gave his consent.

Tarr shrugs off the attention, explaining that it was just "an interesting day out on the street.”

Photo By Davin Tarr.

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.

THE READERS' CHOICE AWARD: To participate, navigate to our Inauguration Photo Contest HQ and click through until you find your ABSOLUTE MOST FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH EVER. Follow directions to vote. One vote per household. VOTING CLOSES AT 6 P.M. ON FEBRUARY 12!

Our fourth-place winner: a lovely shot by Aziz Y.:

Our third-place winner, in which mounted police appear to be trotting atop a line of porta-potties, comes from soleil 1016:

Our second- and first-place winners, both by AnyaLogic:

AnyaLogic: despite your estimable skill with a camera—you wouldn't believe how much the winning entry moved Darrow—you will receive only one gift basket.

To everyone else who participated: Tell your friends & fam to vote, and you too can cherish your very own City Paper gift bag!!!

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.

"Celebrate Pepsi-bama" by flickr user jsmjr

*More info on our photo contest available here.

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.]

Grand Prize: Your shot will be the paper's PAGE THREE photo for our January 23 post-Inauguration issue! In addition, you'll get the City Paper gift basket (see below), including $50 at a great local restaurant.

Second Prize: The gift basket, plus $25 at a restaurant.

Third Prize: The gift basket in all its glory.

Uploading to Flickr is pretty simple:

1. Sign up
2. Join our group
3. Tag your photos and add a caption.
4. Click "Send to Group."

And then you're automatically entered. Get stoked. Spread the word.

The Washington City Paper gift basket includes a $50 certificate to one of Young & Hungry's favorite neighborhood eateries, along with a tall drinking mug, a designer CP t-shirt, two passes to the Landmark Theatre, and a tote bag to carry your City Paper home.

*Flickr is hosting an "Inauguration Day Meetup in D.C." at Frank's SOVA coffehouse, where they'll exhibit photos and offer some free snacks.

...as evidenced by this email:

It happens.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Those words are probably "Ouch" "Uh-oh" "I didn't do it" and "Oh #$@*!".

Check out photos and videos and be glad they didn't happen to you:

The email also contained this picture (oh, the things we do for page views):