WASHINGTON -- A shooting at a gym about 1.6 km north of the White House early Thursday left one person dead and four others injured. The suspected gunman later died, US media reported.
Police were in contact with the suspect by phone while he was barricaded inside a nearby apartment building, NBC News reported. Officers later found him dead with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police believe the suspect had a "conflict" related to the apartment building, according to the NBC News report.
"The barricade has concluded. The scene is safe. Significant traffic closures remain in place," the Metropolitan Police Department, the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia, said in an updated post on the social media platform X.
Earlier Thursday, the department said in a post on X that officers were responding to an "active shooting" near 15th and P Streets and urged the public to avoid the area.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, 408 mass shootings had been recorded in the United States so far this year as of Thursday, resulting in more than 100 deaths.
