At least one person has lost his life and another four have been injured in Washington, the capital of the United States, after a shooting that took place in the vicinity of a gym located in one of the city's most emblematic residential neighborhoods, at the Logan Circle roundabout.
At the first appearance before the media after the incident, the acting Police Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, Jeffery W. Carroll, has confirmed this initial death toll and has indicated that the alleged shooter took his own life with a gunshot shortly after barricading himself in an apartment building.
The suspect shot himself while the negotiators were talking with him, according to Carroll, who believes that the apartment in which he had locked himself away was his own property. One of the injured, he added, is in critical condition.