DC shooting injures at least 5 in Logan Circle neighborhood as police respond to ‘active’ scene

Local law enforcement and National Guard respond to reports of a shooting on 12 November 2026, in Washington DC. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP View image in fullscreen Local law enforcement and National Guard respond to reports of a shooting on 12 November 2026, in Washington DC. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP One dead and four injured in Washington DC shooting, with suspect contained Authorities identify suspect as ‘white male’ who was a member at VIDA Fitness, the gym where people were shot

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Four people were injured and one person died after a shooting in Northwest Washington DC on Thursday morning, local police said.

In a Thursday morning press conference, authorities identified the suspect as a “white male” who has been “contained.”

Jeffery Carroll, the interim chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) told reporters that the department received a report of a shooting just before 8am ET at the 1500 block of 15th street inside of a gym. He said officers were dispatched to the area and were on the scene within 30 seconds.

The police said they located an adult male that had been shot, and then received multiple other calls for additional gunshots and victims.

Carroll said that four people were shot and transported to the hospital and one individual died on the scene. Among those who were transported, one is “determined to be in critical condition”.

“When officers got on the scene, they began canvassing, attempting to locate the suspect in this case,” Carroll said. “While they were on the scene, they were able to begin to clear the building where the shootings occurred.”

While clearing an apartment building on the block, Carroll noted that “gunshots rang out on the seventh floor, and since that time, we have determined the suspect had barricaded themselves in an apartment on the seventh floor of that building”. The emergency response team “responded to the scene as well as additional resources from many federal partners”.

Police are “still evaluating that to make sure we clear the entire building” and “believe that the suspect is now contained in that location, and of course, murder services will be rendered as appropriate to that”.

The gunman was a member of the gym affected, which has been identified as VIDA Fitness. Officials said that they believe that the suspect was in “some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don’t have much more than that”.

The DC police department have urged the public to avoid the area.

In an email to members seen by the Guardian, VIDA Fitness said that the Logan Circle club is “currently closed as is the surrounding area”.

“Please do not travel to the Logan Circle area at this time,” the statement added. “We will update you and send out a more detailed messaged once we have more information.”

A witness, James Spellman, told the Associated Press that he was at the gym a little after 8am when he heard shots being fired.

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

Spellman said he and others ran out of the gym, and then they heard more gunfire in the area of 15th Street. He told the outlet that he heard about two shots fired in the gym and about five or six fired outside.

A VIDA Fitness manager told ABC7News that shots were fired outside the business. The local news station reported that as of 9am local time on Thursday morning, the business was still under lockdown and there is police inside the building.

The manager said that they feel safe with police inside, and that the gym will be closed the rest of the day.

Anthony Morones told NBC that he was in the gym when the shooting occurred, and that he saw someone dead. “It’s surreal” he said. “I was one of the first people who knew something happened at this VIDA fitness.”

Several schools in the area have been placed under “alert status” as public safety teams continue responding to the incident.