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

In an updated statement, the Metropolitan Police Department said investigators had found a sixth victim, a woman, after officers initially located five other victims. Police believe the suspect, a 55-year-old doctor named Matt Wade Lambert, targeted Stuart while Stuart was doing his morning workout at the gym. The shooting started just before 8am local time (13:00 GMT) at a VIDA Fitness gym in the city’s Logan Circle neighbourhood, about a mile north of the White House.

Police said Lambert shot Stuart inside the gym on the ground floor of the building before going back to his apartment on the seventh floor and firing on people below from his patio. Five others, some of whom had been working at a construction site across the street. Police have not detailed the circumstances in which the sixth victim was shot.

Lambert then barricaded himself inside his apartment, where he talked to police negotiators over the phone. Police say he fired at least twice through the door while officers were outside, but no officers were injured.