Washington DC police have identified the gunman and provided new details following a shooting inside a gym in the Logan Circle neighborhood that left one person dead and four others injured on Thursday morning.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the suspect was 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert. Interim Police Chief Jefferey Carroll stated during a press conference that Lambert died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after barricading himself inside an apartment following the gunfire.
The violence began Thursday morning inside a fitness center located within an apartment building roughly a mile north of the White House. While barricaded, the suspect fired through a door at responding officers on at least two occasions. Four people were injured during the incident, with one victim listed in critical condition and the others sustaining non-life-threatening injuries.
Eyewitnesses inside the building described scenes of confusion and panic as the attack unfolded, initially mistaking the early sounds for falling objects or exercise equipment before evacuating. Law enforcement investigations into the shooting remain ongoing.
