2 arrested after pickup truck hits 2 DC police officers, city worker

— -- Two police officers and a city transportation worker in Washington, D.C., were hospitalized after being struck by a pickup truck Thursday night.

Peter Newsham, chief of the city's Metropolitan Police Department, said the truck was traveling "at a high rate of speed" when it hit two bicycle-patrol police officers and a traffic-control officer on a busy road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C. The truck then proceeded through an intersection and crashed into an unoccupied vehicle, the police chief said.

The driver of the truck and his passenger were both arrested, and a weapon was recovered from the suspects' vehicle, according to Newsham.

According to detectives of the Metropolitan Police Department, the driver, identified as 22-year-old Brandon Lord Figures-Mormon of Disputanta, Virginia, is charged with assault with intent to kill. He and his passenger, identified as 23-year-old Dwayne Nicholas Taylor of Prince George, Virginia, also are charged with possession of an unregistered firearm.

The police chief said the motive remains unknown and terrorism cannot be ruled out.

"We have to look at that very closely. We do not have a motive at this point," Newsham told reporters Thursday night.

The two officers and the traffic-control officer, an employee of the district's transportation department, were transported to Medstar Washington Hospital Center.

One officer remains in critical condition and the other is in fair condition, Newsham posted on Twitter this morning. The transportation worker is being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening, according to Newsham.

The two suspects also suffered injuries in the crash that are not life-threatening, Newsham said.

"I feel horrible," the police chief told reporters Thursday night. "You've got two of our officers doing exactly what we ask them to do in the Adams Morgan community."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.