1 dead and 4 wounded as DC shooting suspect barricades himself mile from White House

One person was killed, and four others were wounded in a shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday morning, after which the suspected gunman barricaded himself inside a nearby apartment building, police said.

“At this time, we have located a total of four individuals that were shot here on the scene and transported, and one individual who is deceased here on the scene,” Metropolitan Police Department interim Chief Jeffery W. Carroll told reporters.

Carroll said that while officers were clearing an apartment building, “gunshots rang out on the seventh floor,” and police determined the suspect had barricaded himself in an apartment there.

Negotiators spoke with the suspect for more than an hour, Carroll said. While communicating with the suspect, officers heard a gunshot, forced their way into the apartment, and found the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound.

Carroll said investigators believe the suspect had been involved in “some sort of conflict with the apartment building,” NBC News reported. Police have not publicly identified the suspect.