Five Shot, One Killed Near Washington Gym as Suspect Dies After Barricade

WASHINGTON, November 12, 2026 – Five people were shot, including one who was killed, in and around a gym in Washington, DC, on Thursday morning, and the suspected gunman later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after barricading himself in a nearby apartment, police said, according to Reuters, the Associated Press, NBC4 Washington and WUSA9.

The shooting took place in the area of 15th and P streets Northwest in the Logan Circle neighbourhood, about a mile north of the White House. Officers from the DC Metropolitan Police Department were called just before 8 a.m. and were on the scene within 30 seconds, interim police chief Jeffery Carroll said. The person who died was shot inside the Vida Fitness gym, Carroll said. Four other people were wounded and taken to hospital. One was in critical condition and the other three had injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

Carroll said the other victims included members of a construction crew across the street and a person in the lobby or alley outside the gym. Police have not released the identity of the person who was killed, and they have not publicly identified the suspect. DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto said earlier on social media that the shootings happened “at and outside” the Vida Fitness gym.

The suspect then barricaded himself in a unit on the seventh floor of the adjoining apartment building, which police believed was his own. Officers spoke with him by telephone for about an hour in an effort to persuade him to surrender, Carroll said. During the negotiations, police heard a gunshot inside the apartment and forced their way in. Carroll said the man was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police later confirmed that he had died.

Carroll described the suspect as a white man. He said investigators believed there had been a conflict between the suspect and the apartment building’s homeowners’ association, but that the motive was still under investigation. “We believe it was a conflict with the apartment building, but we don’t know much more than that,” Carroll said, according to WUSA9.

Police issued a shelter-in-place order for the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest. NBC4 Washington reported that the order lasted from just before 9 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. and has since been lifted. An alert status at nearby schools was lifted at 11:25 a.m., the station said. Police were still asking people to avoid the area after the order was lifted.

Carroll said a fire was set in the apartment building at some point and was quickly extinguished, with sprinklers causing water damage. He said police did not know for certain who set the fire. Federal agencies including the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Secret Service assisted at the scene. Mayor Muriel Bowser called the shooting “a senseless act of gun violence” and said she and her team were “devastated”.

Witnesses described hearing gunshots inside the gym and running to take shelter at a nearby deli. A witness who told WUSA9 she had been on a treadmill when the shots were fired described the scene as chaos and “horrific”. The Logan Circle Vida Fitness location was closed until further notice, CBS News reported, citing an email to members.

Source: Reuters’ X (post), with later details from the Associated Press, NBC4 Washington and WUSA9.

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