{"id":4308,"date":"2026-11-12T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:03:50","slug":"one-killed-four-wounded-in-washington-dc-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"One killed, four wounded in Washington, DC, shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>One person was killed, and four others \u200cwere shot and wounded when a gunman opened fire inside a gym before barricading himself inside an apartment building in Washington, DC, on Thursday morning, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspect holed up inside a \u200bseventh-floor unit, where police negotiators were able to open a dialogue, Metropolitan Police \u200bInterim Chief JW Carroll told reporters. After about an hour, police heard \u2060a gunshot and forced their way into the apartment, where they found the suspect \u200bwith a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s condition was not immediately clear, but NBC and \u200bFox News reported he had died, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. Carroll said police believe he lived in the apartment and was a member of the gym where the attack began.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting began \u200bjust before 8 am ET, and officers arrived within 30 seconds, when they \u200bdiscovered an adult male shot. Police were clearing a nearby apartment building when gunshots rang out on \u200cthe \u2060seventh floor where the suspect had barricaded himself, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not identify either the suspect or the deceased victim. One of the four wounded people is in critical condition, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are working to determine a motive, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting drew \u200ba massive police response, \u200bwith large numbers \u2060of officers in tactical gear flooding the area in the Logan Circle neighbourhood, about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>One \u200bperson who described himself as having witnessed the incident told Reuters \u200bthat he \u2060heard gunshots and saw one man run to another who had apparently been struck by a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlood was pouring immediately, and he said, \u2018He\u2019s dead,\u2019\u201d the witness said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know if \u2060the gunman \u200bwas still on the premises, so we just ran \u200bfrantically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he heard more gunshots after running away from the gym.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed, and four others \u200cwere shot and wounded when a gunman opened fire inside a gym before barricading himself inside an apartment building in Washington, DC, on Thursday morning, police said. The suspect holed up inside a \u200bseventh-floor unit, where police negotiators were able to open a dialogue, Metropolitan Police \u200bInterim Chief JW Carroll told reporters. After about an hour, police heard \u2060a gunshot and forced their way into the apartment, where they found the suspect \u200bwith a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect\u2019s condition was not immediately&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}