At Least Five Shot, One Dead in Washington's Logan Circle; Suspect Still Barricaded as Police Respond
At about 8 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, November 12, a gunman opened fire in and around a VIDA Fitness gym near the intersection of 15th Street and P Street Northwest in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., shooting at least five people, one of whom died, while the others were taken to hospitals. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said the suspect was still barricaded inside the building where the shooting took place and had not been taken into custody. The scene is about one mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the White House.
The MPD posted an "active shooting" alert on social media saying its Emergency Response Team was on the scene and urging the public to avoid the area. Police issued a shelter-in-place order for the immediate area around the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest, closed streets around the scene, and schools near the scene were placed on lockdown. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it had sent agents to assist, and the FBI's Washington field office was also helping local police with the investigation.
D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto said the shooting took place at the VIDA Fitness gym and that multiple people had been shot. MPD spokesperson Nicole Deaner said the shooter had not been caught and that the exact locations of the shootings were initially unclear, with police responding to multiple locations. Residents told reporters that shortly after 8 a.m. they heard gunshots inside the gym and saw people run out of the building. The identities and conditions of the wounded, and the shooter's identity and motive, have not been released.
The incident is still developing, the casualty figures could still change, and further details await official updates from police. (Source: Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia)
Source: MPD
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Photo: 图：事发社区华盛顿特区 Logan Circle 的航拍（资料图，非事发现场）。Carol M. Highsmith 摄，美国国会图书馆藏，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: An aerial view of the Logan Circle neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where the shooting took place (file photo, not the scene). Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress collection, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
