By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:53 EST, 31 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:34 EST, 31 October 2013 Lured to a Washington, DC neighborhood by police reports of a violent home invasion, a news team looking for information wound up getting pepper sprayed by a furious resident. Reporter for WUSA Bruce Johnson and photographer Danielle Gill went to a house in the city’s Southeast quadrant on Wednesday to cover a hostage situation and assault that reportedly occurred around 2am. As they spoke with neighbors, a woman watched them from a second floor window of the house in question. When she asked them to leave and they didn’t, she became livid.
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WUSA reporters in Washington, DC were attacked by a woman while investigating an earlier hostage situation and assault in the home
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While they questioned her neighbors, the woman asked reporter Bruce Johnson and photographer Danielle Gill to go away
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When they didn't, she launched her attack as their camera rolled
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