Key facts
- One person was killed and four injured in the shooting at a gym in a Logan Circle apartment building, police said.
- Of the injured, one is in critical condition and the others have non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
- Interim police chief Jefferey Carroll said the suspect fired through the door at officers at least twice while barricaded.
- Carroll said officers found the suspect with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and police later confirmed he had died.
- Carroll said police believe a fire was set in the apartment and that it has been contained.
- Mayor Muriel Bowser called the shooting a senseless act of gun violence and said the White House had been briefed.
One person was killed and four others were injured after a gunman opened fire inside a gym in an apartment building in Washington DC's Logan Circle neighborhood on Thursday, November 12, 2026, police said. The building is about a mile (1.6km) north of the White House.
Police said the suspect, a white male, was contained after barricading himself in one of the apartments, and they later confirmed he had died. Of those injured, one is in a critical condition and the others have non-life-threatening injuries.
Jefferey Carroll, the interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said at a news conference that while the suspect was barricaded, he fired through the door at officers at least twice. Negotiators had been on the phone with the suspect when they heard a gunshot and he stopped communicating, Carroll said. Officers forced their way into the apartment and saw the suspect had what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, he said.
Carroll added that police believe a fire was set and that it has been contained. Authorities are still working to understand the exact timeline, the suspect's motivation and other details of the incident. "We believe there was some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don't have much more than that," Carroll said.
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called it a "senseless act of gun violence" and said the White House had been briefed.
A BBC producer who lives in the building, Jonathan Csapo, said a fire alarm went off and that as he came out of a fire escape he heard gunshots very close by. "I could see the smoke, I could see the flash. We just all started running. That was our first instinct," he said. Csapo said a building manager then took him back inside to a safe room.
Michael Carney told the Washington Sun he was on a treadmill at the Vida Fitness gym when the shooting started. He said he heard "one pop" which he assumed was an exercise ball bursting before seeing a victim on the floor who had been shot. Once outside the gym, Carney said he heard five or 10 shots that seemed to be coming from a nearby alley. Another witness told the Washington Sun she heard "an enormous, loud thing" in the fitness center and more shots outside the gym after being evacuated.