Five gunned down close to White House

World

By Linda Ikeji
12 November 2026, 3:53 pm

Five folks had been gunned down on Thursday, November 12, in a stylish Washington, D.C., neighborhood inside strolling distance of the White House.

A swarm of officers responded to a close-by condominium constructing the place a suspect was believed to be barricaded.

At least one individual was discovered deceased in a pool of blood after being fatally injured on the health club, a witness mentioned.

The incident befell in Logan Circle, a couple of mile north of the White House.

Schools had been positioned on lockdown as regulation enforcement SWAT groups and different officers had their weapons drawn on the roof of an condominium constructing or on the bottom beneath.

Authorities consider the suspect fired at no less than one individual contained in the health club earlier than going exterior and firing once more, in response to a regulation enforcement official who was not approved to publicly talk about the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the situation of anonymity.

Law enforcement brokers consider the suspect fired at one other individual in a parking storage elevator after which barricaded himself on the seventh flooring of the constructing, the official mentioned. 

Witness James Spellman, who was on the health club, mentioned there have been about 50 folks there round 8 a.m. when the taking pictures started.

“Within seconds there was a man who fell to the ground, and a pool of blood came out,” he said. “One gym member rushed to help him. He had been shot in the neck.”

Spellman mentioned he and others dashed out of the health club. He mentioned he heard about two photographs fired within the health club and about 5 – 6 fired exterior.

Another witness, Ryan Dubicki, mentioned he was in his close by condominium across the identical time when he “heard about five bangs.”

“They were really spread out so I thought it was construction,” he mentioned. A short while later “there were cops everywhere.”

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mentioned it despatched brokers to the scene to assist. And the FBI mentioned its Washington subject workplace was serving to native police with the investigation.