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One person has been killed and four others injured after a gunman opened fire in Washington DC.
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The shooting began on Thursday morning local time inside a gym in an apartment building in the Logan Circle neighbourhood, which is about a mile (1.6km) north of the White House.
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Police said the suspect, a white male, was "contained" after barricading himself in one of the apartments.
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They later confirmed he had died.
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Of those injured, one is in a critical condition and the others have non-life-threatening injuries.
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While the suspect was barricaded, "he did fire through the door at officers at least on two occasions", Jefferey Carroll, the interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said at a news conference.
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Negotiators had been on the phone with the suspect when they heard a gunshot and he stopped communicating with them, according to Carroll.
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Officers forced their way into the apartment and saw the suspect had what appeared to be a "self-inflicted gunshot wound", he said.
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Carroll added that police "believe there was a fire that was set", which has been contained.
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Authorities are still working to understand the exact timeline, suspect's motivation, and other details of the incident.
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"We believe there was some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don't have much more than that," Carroll said.
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Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called it a "senseless act of gun violence" and said the White House had been briefed.
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A BBC producer who lives in the building where the shooting happened, Jonathan Csapo, said a fire alarm went off.
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Then, as he came out of a fire escape, he heard gunshots very close by.
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"I could see the smoke, I could see the flash.
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We just all started running.
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That was our first instinct," he said.
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"We immediately ran and took cover behind a barricade, a little brick structure just near the building."
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Csapo said he was then taken back inside, to a safe room, by a building manager.
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"And then everybody started screaming," he said.
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Michael Carney told the Washington Sun he was on a treadmill at the Vida Fitness gym when the shooting started.
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He says he heard "one pop" which he assumed was an exercise ball bursting before seeing a victim on the floor who had been shot.
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"Everyone was kind of just hiding behind planters and stuff," he said, adding a fire alarm was pulled.
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Once outside of the gym, Carney says he heard five or 10 shots that seemed to be coming from a nearby alley.
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Another witness told the Washington Sun that she heard "an enormous, loud thing" in the fitness centre and more shots outside the gym after being evacuated.
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"I thought something had crashed or fallen," she said.
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"I didn't know it was a gunshot until later."
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