A gunman has reportedly shot five people at and outside a gym in Washington’s Logan Circle neighborhood, about a mile north of the White House, on Thursday morning, police said. As of 9:25 a.m. ET, the victims’ conditions had not been disclosed, no deaths had been reported, and the suspect had not been identified.
Metropolitan Police Department officers were on the scene of an “ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest” at 8:23 a.m. ET, and said the department’s Emergency Response Team was there. “AVOID THE AREA,” the department said. The first reports had put the number of people shot at four; by 9 a.m. ET, police were saying five people had been shot.
Councilmember Brooke Pinto said: “Shootings at and outside Vida fitness this morning in Logan Circle. Multiple people shot. Do not go to this area. Police looking for suspect.”
Officials said they believed the shooter was barricaded inside the gym, and that no motive had been established. As of 9:25 a.m. ET, police reported a barricade situation in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest and told people in the 15th and P area to shelter in place. Streets at 15th and P, 14th and P, and 15th and Q were closed. Among the agencies on the scene were the Metropolitan Police, Metro Transit Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Secret Service and Homeland Security.
The gym, VIDA Fitness, is just off that intersection and is popular with the city’s gay community.
This is a developing story.
