Here's what happened
• A 55-year-old gunman killed one person and injured four others in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood, according to police.
• The assailant — identified by police as Matt Lambert, an emergency room doctor — shot and killed his building manager inside a gym with a handgun. He then entered the building, where he shot four more people with a rifle from his seventh-floor balcony, authorities said. One of the victims remains in critical condition.
• Lambert later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after barricading himself inside his apartment, according to police. He had been locked in a legal dispute with his building’s management over a mold problem in his unit.
Updates
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More details emerge about today’s deadly shooting in DC. Here's the latest
Witnesses of the shooting in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood described their experience inside the gym where it occurred. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting left one dead, four wounded -- the gunman is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Authorities have released more information about the deadly shooting that happened today in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle.
Police identified 55-year-old Matt Lambert as the man who allegedly shot five people, killing one, before shooting himself inside his apartment.
Here’s more on what we know:
The victims: Lambert, an emergency room doctor, allegedly shot and killed 46-year-old James Stuart, inside of VIDA Fitness. Stuart was the building manager of the luxury condominium complex where Lambert lived, police said. Lambert had an ongoing maintenance dispute with the building’s homeowners association, according to police. After he left the gym, Lambert entered his building, went to his apartment on the seventh floor and shot four other victims with a rifle from his balcony. Police said that two women and two men were transported to local hospitals for treatment.
The dispute: Lambert sued the Metropole Condominium Association in March 2025, alleging that the association’s maintenance work had caused water and mold damage in his penthouse condo unit. An account on the social media network X, which had posted court documents from Lambert’s dispute — around the time of the shooting – declaring that “my manifesto is an engineering report,” and including a screenshot of a report seemingly describing damage in Lambert’s unit.
What people saw: Two witnesses told CNN that Lambert placed phone calls shortly after the building was evacuated to explain his actions. One of the witnesses, Sean McClafferty, who lives in the Metropole, says he was standing with the building’s concierge a block away when the concierge received a phone call from Lambert.“Essentially, he told our concierge, ‘This is what I need to do to get attention,’” McClafferty said.
Attorney weighs in: Joel Braithwaite, who had represented Lambert in the lawsuit against his condo association, said today marked the anniversary of the alleged shooter burying his mother. Still, the attorney said he had spoken with Lambert in the past 24-48 hours, even conducting depositions in the legal matter last week, and that he was in “great spirits.” Braithwaite said the litigation had cost more than $300,000.
Weapons used: Jeff Carroll, interim chief of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, said the suspect used a handgun inside the gym and a rifle from his balcony. The suspect did not have any firearms registered in DC, he said, adding that the shooting, took place within less than five minutes.
CNN’s Casey Tolan, Michael Williams, Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, Thomas Bordeaux and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn contributed to this report.
Attorney says yearslong litigation had cost alleged gunman more than $300,000
Attorney Joel Braithwaite, who represented Matt Lambert in his lawsuit against his condo association, said Lambert had spent more than $300,000 out-of-pocket in the ongoing legal dispute over conditions in his unit at the Metropole, a luxury condo building near Logan Circle.
After three years, the legal expenses for the 55-year-old alleged gunman were only expected to climb, Braithwaite told reporters at a news conference, noting “the case was not going to wrap up in a day or two.”
Both Lambert and James Stuart, the building manager of the condo identified by police as the man shot and killed inside VIDA Fitness today, had been using the gym during the three years that the litigation had been ongoing, Braithwaite said.
Lambert had multiple residences, Braithwaite said, but Lambert’s Washington, DC, condo was “was his prized possession” that had been “completely deconstructed” over the course of the litigation.
“It doesn’t look hospitable, and no one would want to live in those sorts of situations when you paid for something substantially different,” Braithwaite said.
Alleged gunman's attorney says today marked anniversary of his client burying his mother
Attorney Joel Braithwaite, who had represented Matt Lambert in a lawsuit against his condo association, said today marked the anniversary of the alleged shooter burying his mother.
Still, the attorney said he had spoken with Lambert in the past 24-48 hours, even conducting depositions in the legal matter last week, and that he was in “great spirits.” He said Lambert “had some new beginnings on the horizon, starting a new job on Monday,” Braithwaite said. “I know that it was going to be something that was very highly compensated, and it was a very highly lauded after.”
“I’m at a loss,” Braithwaite said, calling Lambert a “humanitarian” and “a great thinker, an author, someone who’s very calm and collected.”
Police say four victims were shot by the suspect from his balcony
Police said Thursday that the suspect shot one individual inside the gym with a handgun, and then entered into his building, went to the his apartment on the seventh floor and shot four other victims with a rifle from his balcony patio.
He added that police have “some information” that the suspect may have discharged a shotgun before he went down to the gym, though they are still “working through those details.”
The suspect barricaded himself in his apartment and started a fire with “probably some level of accelerant,” Carroll said. “We don’t know if it was gasoline or something else. There were some other flammable liquids that were found inside of there, so we do believe there probably was some level of pouring there.”
Carroll also said the suspect did not have any firearms registered in DC. The shooting, he noted, took place within less than five minutes.
Man killed in DC shooting identified as James Stuart
James Stuart, 46, was identified by police as the man allegedly shot and killed inside VIDA Fitness today.
Stuart, who was the building manager of the condo where the suspected gunman lived, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Jeff Carroll, interim chief of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.
Carroll said that the four other victims, two women and two men, were transported to area hospitals.
DC gunman had lengthy legal dispute with management of condo building
The gunman who killed one person and injured four others in Washington, DC before barricading himself in a condo building on Thursday morning was an emergency room doctor who had been locked in a legal dispute with the building’s management over a mold problem in his unit.
Police identified Matt Lambert as the shooter who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting several people in the gym and parking garage of the Metropole, a luxury condo building near Logan Circle.
Lambert sued the Metropole Condominium Association in March 2025, alleging that the association’s maintenance work had caused water and mold damage in his penthouse condo unit.
Two witnesses told CNN that Lambert placed phone calls shortly after the building was evacuated to explain his actions. One of the witnesses, Sean McClafferty, who lives in the Metropole, says he was standing with the building’s concierge a block away when the concierge received a phone call from Lambert.
“Essentially, he told our concierge, ‘This is what I need to do to get attention,’” McClafferty said.
A second witness, who asked not to be named, said he heard Lambert say over the phone that this was how he decided to resolve his dispute with the building’s board.
Lambert bought his 1,200-square-foot unit for just over $1 million in 2016, property records show. According to Lambert’s lawsuit, his unit experienced damage from “suspected water intrusion, mold, (and) significant moisture accumulation” caused by work to renovate the building’s façade starting in 2023.
By September 2024, the unit was showing signs of water damage, but the condo association denied that mold was present and was “ignoring Plaintiff’s very real mold complaints,” the lawsuit stated.
In November 2024, Lambert hired a company to remove the unit’s mold-contaminated walls and flooring. He said in the lawsuit that he avoided using his shower or HVAC system for six months, but the unit continued to experience excessive moisture. Lambert also hired a firm to conduct further testing in May 2026, which identified “microbial contamination and/or mold growth” in the unit, according to court documents.
Lambert had spent more than $290,000 investigating and responding to the damage as of May, according to the complaint.
In court documents, the condo association and its property management company denied some of Lambert’s claims and argued that the association “did not cause the Plaintiff’s alleged injuries and damages.” The case was scheduled to go to a mediation session in March 2027, court records show.
An attorney who had represented Lambert in his lawsuit against the condo association described his client in an interview with CNN as calm, conscientious, and nonviolent, and expressed shock at the idea that he was responsible for the shooting. That attorney added he thought the lawsuit had been going well.
Lambert was born and grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, according to the Amazon description of a memoir he published.
Lambert wrote on a personal website that he had more than two decades of clinical experience and has worked at various health care technology companies.
He received his medical degree from Marshall University in West Virginia, and completed a residency at West Virginia University, according to the website.
Police identify alleged gunman in Logan Circle shooting
Police have identified 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert as the man who allegedly shot five people, killing one, in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood today. before shooting himself.
DOJ offers resources for DC shooting victims
The Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime has set up a website for victims of today’s deadly shooting in the nation’s capital.
“OVC offers our sympathy for the victims and witnesses impacted by the shooting in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on November 12, 2026,” it says.
Numbers and links listed include the VictimConnect Resource Center, Disaster Distress Helpline, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the DC’s victims’ compensation program.
It also includes specific resources to support children, law enforcement and faith leaders.
Witness says he was feet away from shooting victim inside gym
Sahil Kapoor says he was walking downstairs in the multi-level VIDA gym when he heard a gunshot. At the bottom of the flight of stairs he was walking down, Kapoor said, he saw a man with blood gushing out of his head in a seating area near the cardio section of the gym.
“I usually sit in those chairs before I have a training session,” Kapoor told CNN. “If I had taken five or six more steps, I would have been right there.”
“To hear a gunshot within feet of you — it just stuns you,” he added.
Kapoor says he and a small group of other people evacuated the building. Once they were near Milk Bar, a dessert shop across the street from the gym, they heard more gunshots. “We all took off running,” he said.
Witness describes being evacuated from his apartment building
A man who lives in the building where the suspect barricaded himself said that he was evacuated from his apartment by armed police.
The man, Charles Webb, said he heard the fire alarm this morning and then noticed water coming through his apartment ceiling. He said the hallway was flooded and the lights were off.
Police then opened his door “with guns drawn” and said he needed to leave immediately. They had him evacuate via the stairwell with his hands raised.
“It was really terrifying,” Webb said.
What we know about the shooting in Logan Circle
One person is dead and four others were injured in a shooting today in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The gunman is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, law enforcement sources say.
Here’s what we know about the incident:
- A gunman opened fire at a VIDA Fitness in the Logan Circle neighborhood this morning and shot one person inside the gym, according to multiple law enforcement sources. He then left the gym and kept shooting while outside, including into a parking garage, the sources said.
- The gunman fled the scene and barricaded himself inside his apartment building, which resulted in a standoff with law enforcement.
- Police negotiators spoke to the gunman for an hour in an effort to end the armed standoff, said Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the shooter fired his weapon at officers.
- Police believe the suspect may have had a conflict with the apartment building where the shooting took place.
- Four people wounded from the incident were transported to local hospitals to be treated. One person is in critical condition, and the other three victims “appear to have non-life-threatening injuries,” police said.
- Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser said the White House has been briefed on the shooting in Northwest Washington, DC, on Thursday morning.
- A shelter-in-place order for the area around the shooting site has been lifted, according to DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.
- VIDA Fitness’ Logan Circle location is “temporarily closed” following the shooting, according to the company’s president, Aaron Moore.
CNN’s Nicky Robertson, Michael Williams, Holmes Lybrand, Kit Maher, Chris Boyette, Hannah Rabinowitz, Adrienne Vogt, Lauren Chadwick, Sarah Ferris and Kristen Holmes contributed to this report.
Shelter-in-place order has been lifted in Washington, DC
The shelter-in-place order for the area around the shooting site has been lifted, according to DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.
Residents and businesses in the 1500 block of 15th Street NW “may resume normal activity,” according to an alert sent by police.
“Follow instructions from public safety officials in the area,” police said.
An emergency reception center has been set up at Stead Park on 17th Street NW and P Street NW.
Man at gym says he was on the treadmill when he heard a “loud bang”
Anthony Mirones said he was inside VIDA Fitness, on the treadmill, when he heard a “loud bang” at the gym where the shooting occurred.
“And I’m thinking like a bouncy ball popped or a painting [fell] on the floor,” Mirones said, before he went toward the area of commotion and saw someone laying on the floor.
Mirones said, “I take a peek and like, he’s not moving at all,” adding that he saw blood on the floor.
He said people began evacuating shortly after a fire alarm sounded.
Mirones said he heard more gunshots once he was outside the gym, where police were trying to get a description of the shooter from witnesses. “And then we all just start running and people are scattering everywhere,” he said.
Mirones said he ran and took shelter in a coffee shop, “and I didn’t move.”
Mirones described the situation as “surreal.” He sent a text to his family to reassure them of his safety. “I’m sure they were surprised,” he said.
"Every moment feels like an eternity," witness says
Victoria Stafford was in a yoga class at a gym in Logan Circle when she heard an “incredibly loud noise” about 45 minutes in.
At first, she thought it was heavy weights, but the instructor paused the class and told them to leave everything. She and others piled into a laundry room, while gym workers barricaded the door.
Stafford was trying to text her friends and family from her watch since she didn’t have her phone.
“You’re in that room for so long every moment feels like an eternity,” she told CNN.
They turned off the laundry room machines and tried to stay silent.
She said she saw an unresponsive man on the floor as well as a pool of blood.
“It was just really devastating to see, and all I could think in that moment was wow there is a person just like myself who is trying to get their morning gym session in, who has a family, who has loved ones … and they thought that they were going to come home to them and they’re not going to today,” she said of the person she saw unresponsive in the gym.
Witnesses described hearing fire alarm and gunshots
Two witnesses said they heard a fire alarm sounding in the apartment building at the corner of 15th and P streets NW, a trendy, bustling area that includes a Sweetgreen, a Whole Foods and a VIDA gym.
Peter Morris, a CNN photojournalist, said he was making coffee in his apartment when he heard the alarm. He went out to his balcony, which faces P St. NW, and saw DC Fire and EMS engines begin to arrive. Morris said he then heard 10 shots.
Morris, who also works as a volunteer firefighter, said he saw people running from 15th St. NW to P St. NW and heard the fire truck that had just arrived lay on its horn for an extended period of time, which Morris says in firefighting circles could indicate a distress signal.
A second witness, who spoke with CNN on the condition that his name not be used, said the building began flooding with water pouring through elevators and stairwells while the fire alarm was sounding. This witness evacuated the building, where he saw a woman in an alley, bleeding from her head. The witness said he retrieved the woman’s dog while she was being tended to by first responders.
Logan Circle gym where shooting took place is “temporarily closed," gym president says
VIDA Fitness’ Logan Circle location is “temporarily closed” following the shooting that occurred this morning, according to the company’s president, Aaron Moore.
“Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this incident. We understand that this news may be deeply concerning to our VIDA community,” he added. “The facility will remain closed until further notice. We will provide updates as more information becomes available and it is safe and appropriate to do so.”
Shooter dead after firing at officers, turning gun on himself
The man police say killed one person and wounded four others in a shooting in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood appears to have shot himself after shooting at officers from inside his barricaded apartment, police said.
“Just moments ago, while communicating with that individual, officers heard a gunshot. As a response to that, officers forced entry into the apartment. When they did that, they located the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound,” Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department told reporters Thursday morning.
Police negotiators spoke to the gunman for an hour in an effort to end the armed standoff, Carroll said, but the shooter fired his weapon at officers.
“He did fire through the door at officers at least on two occasions,” Carroll said.
The shooter has died from a self inflicted gunshot wound, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.
DC mayor briefed White House on DC shooting
Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser said the White House has been briefed on the shooting in northwest Washington, DC, on Thursday morning.
“The White House has been briefed, as is my process, yes,” Bowser told reporters.
One reporter asked Bowser about praising President Donald Trump for bringing down crime in the city.
Bowser quickly corrected: “Actually, I praised MPD for bringing down crime in this city and I praise our prosecutors.”
1 person in critical condition, DC police say
Police said the surviving victims have been transported to local hospitals.
One person is in critical condition, police said and “at this point the other three … they appear to have non-life-threatening injuries.”
