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At Least Five People Shot in Washington’s Logan Circle as Police Order Residents to Shelter in Place
By Eleanor Ever Loyal
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At least five people were shot in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood early Thursday morning, November 12, according to reporting by The Guardian and The Hill. The toll was revised upward as further reporting came in, according to the Guardian, Al Jazeera and the South China Morning Post.
The Metropolitan Police Department issued a critical alert saying officers were responding to the scene, according to The Guardian’s U.S. reporting.
The Guardian described police as responding to an “active” scene. Authorities had not publicly established further details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
A shelter-in-place order was in effect for areas surrounding Logan Circle, The Hill reported. The response included a large police presence and street closures in the nation’s capital.
The available reporting established that at least five people had been shot, but it did not confirm their identities or provide additional information about their conditions.
The sources also did not establish a motive or identify a suspect. No suspect description has been released, and the circumstances that led to the shooting had not been established.
Police were continuing to respond to the scene as the shelter-in-place order and broader emergency response remained in effect, according to the reports.
Further information was not immediately available.
— Eleanor Ever Loyal, National Desk
Eleanor Ever Loyal covers Congress, elections, law and federal accountability for The Library Media National Desk.
Update: Axios reported the toll as one person killed and four injured, and reported the barricade over.
Update, November 12, 2026: Five people were shot in Logan Circle, one fatally — the gunman killed one person inside a VIDA Fitness gym and shot four other people outside it, and one of the surviving victims was in critical condition Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported. The suspect barricaded himself in his apartment and shot himself as police attempted to negotiate, and died, according to AP reporting carried by The Hill. Three sources, including two law enforcement officials, told the AP that a man named Matt Lambert is the preliminary suspect, though law enforcement has not publicly announced the suspect’s identity. At a news conference Thursday morning, police said they were looking into a dispute between the gunman and his apartment building’s management as a possible motive.
In an update, MS NOW reported the shooting happened at a gym in Logan Circle and that the suspected shooter was barricaded, with at least five people wounded.
France 24 later reported that at least one person had died and that the suspect, who had been barricaded, shot himself.
Update, November 13: Police have found a sixth victim of Thursday’s shooting, bringing the toll to six people shot. Metropolitan Police said the sixth victim, a woman, was conscious and breathing with a non-life-threatening graze wound, which she had treated herself; police have not detailed the circumstances in which she was shot. The man killed at the scene was James Stuart, 46, the manager of the building where the gunman lived. Two women and two men were taken to hospital, all conscious and breathing. Police identified the gunman as Matt Wade Lambert, 55, a doctor who lived in the building. Interim police chief Jeffery Carroll said the shooting began just before 8 a.m. on Thursday at the VIDA Fitness gym on the building’s ground floor, where Lambert shot Stuart, and that Lambert then fired on people below from his seventh-floor patio, some of them at a construction site across the street; the shootings unfolded in under five minutes. Lambert barricaded himself in his apartment, fired at least twice through the door at officers outside — no officers were injured — and broke a gas line, starting a fire the building’s sprinklers contained. Negotiators heard a single gunshot; tactical officers who forced entry found Lambert dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, with a shotgun, a rifle and a handgun in the apartment. According to court records cited by the Associated Press, Lambert had sued over mould, moisture and water damage in his penthouse dating to work on the building’s exterior in 2024; his lawyer, Joel Braithwaite, said Lambert had spent more than $300,000 on the lawsuit. (Al Jazeera / Associated Press, November 13, 2026.)
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