At least one dead by a shooter who has not been arrested and who shot five people in a neighborhood near the White House

Five people were shot early this Thursday in a modern neighborhood of Washington, DC, a short walk from the White House, according to police, who had previously reported four people hit by gunfire.

The shooter had not been arrested and the locations of the shootings were unclear, police department spokeswoman Nicole Deaner said. The shootings occurred in Logan Circle, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the White House.

D.C. City Council member Brooke Pinto said the shooting occurred inside and outside a gym and that "several people" had been hit by gunfire. A witness cited by Reuters stated that one of those affected was inside the gym and had apparently died.

Police urged people to avoid the area of ​​the 1500 block of 15th Street, where a VIDA gym, St. Luke's Episcopal Church and several homes are located, and which is around the corner from a Whole Foods supermarket. Much of the block was cordoned off.

Surrounding streets were also closed to traffic during extensive police deployment at the scene. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) indicated that it sent agents to the scene to assist.

A witness, Ryan Dubicki, said he was at his apartment around 8 a.m. when "I heard like four gunshots." He said that "they were distanced so I thought it was construction work" but then he saw "that there were police everywhere." His building management sent a message to tenants notifying them that there was possibly an armed man.

Information spread on social networks states that, according to eyewitnesses, the suspect would have barricaded himself in an apartment and shot through the door.

In early August 2025, a former member of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency was attacked early on a Sunday in the Logan Circle neighborhood by a group of teenagers who were trying to steal his and a woman's car, according to authorities.

Days later, Trump made good on his threat to bypass local authorities and imposed direct federal control over the city, sending hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime. That deployment continues today.