One person was killed and four others were injured in a shooting at a gym in northwest Washington, about one and a half kilometers from the White House. The emergency prompted a large tactical police response and warnings for residents to avoid the Logan Circle area.

Radio Svoboda reported the incident on Thursday, November 12. Officers with rifles were positioned on surrounding rooftops, while dozens of patrol vehicles filled nearby streets.

Acting Metropolitan Police Chief Jeffrey Carroll said the suspect retreated to a seventh-floor apartment after the attack. Police negotiators began speaking with him, but about an hour later officers heard a gunshot and entered the residence, where they found him with an apparently self-inflicted firearm wound.

Authorities initially gave no definitive update on the suspect’s condition. NBC and Fox News later cited unidentified law enforcement sources as saying he had died. Police said he was believed to live in the apartment and to have been a customer of the gym; no possible motive was disclosed.