Sixth victim identified in Washington DC condo shooting, suspect dead
Police confirmed a sixth person was injured in the Logan Circle condo shooting, bringing the total to one dead and five wounded, while the suspect died after a standoff and fire.
Washington, DC – Metropolitan Police announced Thursday that a sixth victim, a woman with a non-life-threatening graze wound, was found after the early-morning shooting at a condo building’s fitness center. The woman treated the wound herself, and two other women and two men were taken to hospital, all conscious and breathing.
The attack, which began just before 8 a.m. at the VIDA Fitness gym in Logan Circle, left 46-year-old building manager James Stuart dead at the scene. Police say the shooter, 55-year-old Dr. Matt Wade Lambert, targeted Stuart during his workout, then returned to his seventh-floor apartment and fired on people below from his patio.
Investigators reported that the shootings occurred within five minutes. Lambert subsequently barricaded himself, engaged in a phone negotiation with police, and fired at officers through the apartment door without injuring them. He also ruptured a gas line, igniting a fire that was contained by the building’s sprinkler system.
Interim police chief Jeffery Carroll said most of the negotiation focused on Lambert’s dispute with the homeowners association over alleged mold and water damage in his penthouse, a lawsuit he had filed in 2024. When tactical officers entered the apartment, they found Lambert dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and recovered a shotgun, rifle and handgun used in the attack.
Lambert’s attorney Joel Braithwaite told reporters that the condo had required extensive repairs and that Lambert had spent more than $300,000 on the lawsuit.