Five people were shot in the Logan Circle area of Washington, D.C., including one fatality at a fitness centre, before the suspected gunman died by suicide while barricaded in an apartment.
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Police in Washington, D.C., said five people were shot on Thursday in the Logan Circle neighbourhood, about a mile north of the White House, and one victim died in the initial shooting.
Interim Metropolitan Police Department chief Jeffery Carroll said the suspect later shot and killed himself while barricaded inside an apartment as officers responded to the building.
Carroll said the man apparently had a dispute with the building’s homeowners association.
Investigators believe the suspect fired at least one person inside the VIDA fitness centre before going outside and firing again, according to a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity. The same official said agents believed the suspect shot another person in a parking garage elevator before barricading himself on the seventh floor.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it sent agents to the scene, and the FBI said its Washington field office was assisting local police.
Police cordoned off much of the block on 15th Street and urged people to avoid the area. Schools were on lockdown, and officers had guns drawn while positioned on a roof or on the ground below.
Witness James Spellman, who was at the gym, said about 50 people were inside around 8 a.m. when the shooting began. He said, “Within seconds there was a man who fell to the ground, and a pool of blood came out," adding that one gym member rushed to help and the victim was “instantly dead” after being shot in the neck.
Spellman said he and others ran out of the gym and heard “about two shots fired in the gym” and “about five or six fired outside.” Another witness, Ryan Dubicki, said he was in his nearby apartment when he “heard about five bangs,” and later saw “cops everywhere.”
The neighbourhood has experienced violence before. In early August 2025, authorities said a onetime member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted in Logan Circle by a group of teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman, and a deployment of National Guard members to reduce crime continued after the city came under direct federal control.
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