Search continues near 15th Street as police ask people to stay indoors
Five people were shot Thursday morning in Logan Circle, a busy Washington, D.C., neighborhood about a mile from the White House, and police said the suspect was barricaded and not in police custody.
Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department said they responded to the active shooting shortly before 8 a.m. local time.
Officer Nathan Clarke, a spokesman for the department, said five people were shot in the incident and their conditions were unknown.
Clarke said the suspect was barricaded and not in police custody. Police issued an alert for a possible suspect, described as a white man “wearing gray shorts with a gray and black gun.”
Police asked people to stay indoors and away from the 1500 block of 15th Street as officers responded.
At least one victim was located in VIDA Fitness, a gym in the area, Clarke said, though not all five victims were inside the gym.