There is an active shooter at the VIDA Fitness gym in the Logan Circle area, a D.C. police spokesperson told The Washington Sun Thursday morning.
The situation is “fluid,” the spokesperson said.
Sources briefed on the situation told The Sun there are multiple victims. Ward 2 D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto posted on social media that there were shootings “at and around” the fitness center with multiple people shot and the suspect still at large.
Police asked D.C. residents to avoid the area around 15th Street and P Street Northwest, and a shelter-in-place order was issued for the immediate area just before 9 a.m. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Emergency Response Team responded to the scene.
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Michael Carney, a regular at VIDA, told The Sun he was on a treadmill in the gym when the shooting started. He heard “one pop” that he assumed was an exercise ball popping, got off the treadmill and saw a victim on the gym floor who had been shot in the head. People began to evacuate.
“Everyone was kind of just hiding behind planters and stuff,” he said.
The Washington Sun’s Martin Austermuhle talked to Carney on the scene:
People fled from the gym and into a neighboring apartment building when a fire alarm was pulled. Once outside of the gym, Carney said he heard five or 10 shots that seemed to be coming from the alley, meaning he thought the shooter — or shooters — had fled.
Suzanne Garwood was also inside VIDA. She heard “an enormous, loud thing” from the ladies’ locker room and more shots outside of the gym after being evacuated. She said she had heard that one man was shot in VIDA, and a woman inside an elevator.
“I thought something had crashed or fallen,” she said. “I didn’t know it was a gunshot until later.”
Kevin Schweer, president of the condo building above the gym, told The Sun that, like Garwood, he had also heard someone had been shot in the gym, and that he himself saw another person who’d been shot in the parking garage elevator.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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