Sixth victim confirmed in DC condo-related shooting in US, police say

What the report says

Police in Washington, DC, said a sixth person was found wounded after a shooting Thursday morning in the Logan Circle area, bringing the toll to one person killed and five others injured. According to Al Jazeera’s report, the incident began at a VIDA Fitness gym in a condo building about a mile north of the White House and unfolded in less than five minutes.

Investigators identified the dead suspect as 55-year-old doctor Matt Wade Lambert. Police said he first shot building manager James Stuart, 46, inside the gym, then returned to his seventh-floor apartment and fired on people below from his patio. Authorities said the sixth victim, a woman, had a non-life-threatening graze wound and had treated herself. Four others were taken to hospital conscious and breathing; police did not specify how the sixth victim was injured.

Police said Lambert later barricaded himself in the apartment, spoke with negotiators and started a fire after breaking a gas line, though the building sprinkler system contained it. Officers later found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. They also recovered a shotgun, rifle and handgun. Al Jazeera, citing court records and the suspect’s lawyer, reported that Lambert had been involved in a legal dispute with the condo association over mold, moisture and water damage, offering context for what police believe may have motivated the attack.