Logan Circle neighbourhood shooting suspect has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police sources confirmed.
The suspect attacker in a mass shooting at a Washington D.C. gym about a mile away from the White House died after barricading himself in an apartment for hours after the shooting.
According to Jeffery Carroll, interim chief with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., held a press conference shortly after police found the suspect with a gunshot inside the apartment.
“We do believe it was a hit unit. He did fire at officers through the door on at least two occasions while barricaded in there,” said Carroll.
Although police officials have not disclosed the identity of the suspected shooter, media reports have named Dr Matt Wade Lambert, a white man living on the seventh floor of the Metropole Condos, as the man behind the fatal shooting that killed one and injured four more in the nation’s capital.
The shooting incident took place around 8 a.m. on Thursday inside Vida Fitness, located in the 1500 block of 15th Street, Northwest, beneath the condominium building.
On Thursday night, community members gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighbourhood to pay tribute to the victims of a morning mass shooting incident.
