One dead, four injured in shooting near White House, suspect dies by suicide

Police said a shooting on Thursday in the Logan Circle neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., resulted in one fatality and four injuries. The incident occurred near the White House, and officers responded to an apartment building where the suspect had barricaded himself.

Interim Metropolitan Police Department chief Jeffrey Carroll confirmed that the gunman shot himself while inside the seventh-floor apartment after a dispute with the building’s homeowners association. The block on 15th Street, which includes a fitness centre, a church, residences and a Whole Foods supermarket, was cordoned off and schools were placed on lockdown.

According to an unnamed law-enforcement official, the shooter fired at least one victim inside the gym before moving outside and firing again, and later shot another person in a parking-garage elevator. Witnesses described hearing multiple gunshots and seeing people flee the scene.

"Within seconds there was a man who fell to the ground, and a pool of blood came out," said James Spellman, who was at the gym. "One gym member rushed to help him. He was instantly dead. He had been shot in the neck."

The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deployed agents to assist, and the FBI’s Washington field office is working with local police on the investigation.

The area has experienced prior violence, including an assault on a former member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency in August 2025. Following that event, President Trump ordered a federal deployment of National Guard troops to the city, a presence that continues.