Five people were shot early Thursday in Washington’s Logan Circle, including one death at a gym, police said.
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Five people were shot early Thursday in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighbourhood, about a mile north of the White House, police said.
Police said the shootings were reported in the 1500 block of 15th Street, an area that includes a VIDA fitness centre, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, residences and is around the corner from a Whole Foods supermarket.
A witness said at least one of the people shot was at the gym and died. James Spellman said he was at the gym a little after 8 a.m. when he heard shots, adding there were about 50 people in the gym at the time.
Spellman said “within seconds” a man fell to the ground and “a pool of blood came out,” and that the man was “instantly dead,” shot in the neck.
Spellman said he and other gym members ran out of the gym and he heard more gunfire around 15th Street, including about two shots inside and five or six outside.
Witness Ryan Dubicki said he was in his nearby apartment around 8 a.m. when he heard “about five bangs,” and that shortly after he looked outside and saw “cops everywhere.”
The DC Metropolitan Police Department said a shooting suspect was barricaded in the vicinity of the initial shooting and that SWAT teams responded in the area, including to a high floor of a nearby apartment building.
Police urged the public to avoid the area around the 1500 block of 15th Street, where much of the block was cordoned off, and said schools near the scene were placed on lockdown.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it sent agents to the scene to help, and the FBI said its Washington field office was assisting local police with the investigation.
The Logan Circle neighbourhood has seen violence before. In early August 2025, authorities said a onetime member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted early on a Sunday morning in Logan Circle by teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman, and “days later” Trump imposed direct federal control over the city by sending hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime, a deployment that continues today.
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