Shooting near White House leaves one dead and four injured; suspect commits suicide. VIDEO

Five people were shot, one of them fatally, on Thursday in a trendy Washington, D.C. neighborhood just a short distance from the White House, police reported, and the alleged gunman subsequently took his own life as a multitude of officers responded to the apartment building where he was barricaded.

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One victim died in the initial shooting, reported Jeffery Carroll, acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

The suspect, Carroll indicated, then shot himself while barricaded inside an apartment. He added that the man apparently had a dispute with the building's homeowners association.

The suspect's death was confirmed by a law enforcement official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation into the incident and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The shootings were reported in Logan Circle, about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) north of the White House. Much of the 15th Street block was cordoned off as police urged people to avoid the area, which includes a VIDA fitness center, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, residences, and a Whole Foods supermarket. Schools were placed on lockdown.

SWAT teams and other units arrived with their weapons drawn on the roof of an apartment building or on the ground below.

Authorities believe the suspect shot at least one person inside the gym before heading outside and firing more shots, according to another law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Officers believe the suspect shot another person in a parking garage elevator and then barricaded himself on the seventh floor of the building, the official said.

Witness James Spellman, who was at the gym, recounted that there were about 50 people there around 8 a.m. when the shooting started.

“Within seconds a man fell to the ground, and a pool of blood sprouted,” he said. “A gym member ran to help him. He died instantly. He had been shot in the neck.”

Spellman said he and other gym members ran out of the building. He said he heard about two gunshots inside the gym and about five or six outside.

Another witness, Ryan Dubicki, said he was in his apartment when “I heard like five bangs”.

“They were spaced out so I thought it was construction work,” he recounted. Shortly after “there were police everywhere”.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced it sent agents to the scene to assist. And the FBI stated that its Washington field office was assisting local police with the investigation.

The neighborhood has seen violence before. In early August 2025, a former member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted early on a Sunday morning in the Logan Circle neighborhood by a group of teenagers who were trying to carjack him and a woman, authorities reported.

Days later, Trump fulfilled his threat to bypass local authorities and imposed direct federal control over the city, sending hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime. That deployment continues today.