Five Shot Near White House in Washington, With At Least One Dead
Five people were shot early Thursday in Logan Circle, a busy Washington, DC neighbourhood about one mile north of the White House. At least one person was killed, according to police and a witness who said a victim at a VIDA fitness centre died at the scene after being shot in the neck. The incident prompted a large emergency response, with streets around the 1500 block of 15th Street closed and nearby schools placed on lockdown.
Authorities believe the suspect first shot someone inside the gym, then fired additional rounds outside, including at another person in a parking-garage elevator. He subsequently barricaded himself on the seventh floor of a nearby apartment building, where police and SWAT teams surrounded him. The suspect was believed to have been involved in a dispute with the building’s homeowners’ association and later shot himself.
Witnesses described hearing several widely spaced bangs before seeing police arrive. Federal agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, assisted local investigators. The shooting occurred in a neighbourhood that has also seen recent violence, including an August 2025 attempted carjacking involving a former member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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