WASHINGTON — D.C. police have confirmed a sixth victim in Thursday’s Logan Circle shooting: an adult woman found during the investigation with a graze wound she had treated herself, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an update. The toll from the attack now stands at one man killed and five people wounded.
Officers sent to the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest just before 8 a.m. on Thursday, after multiple reports of an active shooter, found five victims there. Two women and two men, all conscious and breathing, were taken to a hospital. One man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The sixth woman turned up in the same block as the investigation went on. She was conscious and breathing, with what police described as a non-life-threatening gunshot graze wound, and she had self-treated it.
What police say happened
The man killed was James Stuart, 46, of Northwest Washington, the property manager of The Metropole, the condominium building above the VIDA Fitness gym on the block. Police say Matt Wade Lambert, 55, a doctor who lived in the building, shot Stuart inside the gym and then fired from his seventh-floor balcony at people below.
Lambert was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after tactical officers forced their way into his apartment, police said. Inside were three firearms — a shotgun, a rifle and a handgun. All three were used in the shooting, police said, and none was registered to Lambert in the District.
Investigators have said the attack appears to stem from Lambert’s dispute with the building’s homeowners association over conditions in his home, a fight that had also reached the courts.
By Friday, three of the wounded had been treated and released, and one remained in the hospital in critical but stable condition, Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll said. Police have finished their work inside The Metropole, he said, but the building remains uninhabitable — water damage, no electricity, and a gas line Lambert cut in his own unit.
The case remains under investigation, police said. Anyone with information can call (202) 727-9099 or text a tip to the department’s text tip line at 50411.
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