Washington Logan Circle Shooting Update: Police Identify Gunman as Matt Wade Lambert, 55

Jeffery W. Carroll, interim chief of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon, November 12, that the gunman in the shooting in and around a VIDA Fitness gym in Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood was Matt Wade Lambert, 55. Police had earlier confirmed that the gunman had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound but had not released his name; the news conference formally identified him for the first time. The man killed was the 46-year-old manager of the apartment building. Of the four people wounded, one remains in critical condition and the other three have injuries that are not life threatening.

Carroll said Lambert first shot the building manager with a handgun inside the VIDA Fitness gym on the ground floor, then returned to his seventh-floor apartment and shot four more people, two men and two women, from his balcony. Police found three firearms in his apartment, a handgun, a rifle and a shotgun, and Carroll said all three had been used. Lambert also broke the gas line in his apartment and started a fire, Carroll said.

The shooting took place at about 8 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday near the intersection of 15th Street and P Street Northwest in Logan Circle, about one mile north of the White House. After the shooting, Lambert barricaded himself in his seventh-floor apartment. Police negotiators spoke with him by phone for about an hour, he fired through the door at officers, and officers then heard a gunshot, entered the apartment and found that he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Carroll said Lambert had a long-running dispute with the building's homeowners association over maintenance issues and mold, and that he had sued the association over the dispute in March 2025. A motive is still under investigation. (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 John A. Logan 将军雕像（资料图，非事发现场）。AgnosticPreachersKid 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The statue of Gen. John A. Logan in Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., the neighborhood where the shooting took place (file photo, not the scene). Photo by AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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