LIVE: Washington Police Respond to Active Shooter Situation

So I cannot physically see that from my vantage point, but I have seen it online. I'm sure others at this point have seen it as well. Extremely alarming. I cannot hear bullets. I cannot hear gunshots, I should say, from my vantage point. And this is what we're seeing. It unfortunately has not changed. I wish I could see more. I wish I could show you more. But this is kind of where all of the officers appeared when they got here, just kind of parked and got out. Obviously, they shut down 15th Street. As we know, we've been moving. This is what we're seeing here, and Adam, you know, early on, when we got here over an hour at this point, you know, you were kind of asking me, am I seeing officers moving around? Are they looking for the suspect? You know, where are the resources kind of focused? It's no longer here. It is up there, close to where Johnny is As you know, they've been telling us to move back if they're dealing with that ongoing barricade situation. But that is the very latest here. It's still very tense. We're all kind of waiting for more information. Obviously, police are dealing with this in real time. Therefore, we are getting the updates how we can. I've got the girl with me here from 15th. We're keeping a close eye. We're trying to get as much information as I can to both nearby, trying to go talk to witnesses. Some of them have got friends inside of these buildings. so they like to hear from inside of these buildings One of my friends said she is in a group chat with some folks. You know, they were at the gym. She's kind of more of an athlete. They were exercising a lot. And she said that her group chat with people So I'm trying to get some more information from her inside, and I know we all want to know the very latest of these five people who are shot. Thank you very much. That is just of the utmost importance right now, where they are. Adriana, let's go to you. What have you got from your team? What we know, Adam, kind of just recapping what you just said. I'll keep it quick so I can, you know, I've got a few people I want to call so they can give me more information about the updates. Because that is really the conditions that we know at this point, how these folks are It sounds like he's kind of coming out of the gym there to feed us fitness. I just spoke with another gentleman, you know, while you guys were on the air, I was kind of talking to the coach right here. He said he was just, he was at the gym, he was just trying to get to the gym. And clearly that did not happen. He's kind of waiting over there, you know, in his workout clothes, he's on his way. And then obviously around that 8:30 hours when those gunshots were fired and this chaos ensued. So now, now it really is just kind of a waiting game. J.R. Dunlop, what do you got for us? I'm Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. I'm here to provide an update regarding the shooting that occurred in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest this morning. I want to start out by saying this is very preliminary information. The scene is continuing to unfold. We want to provide you an update with the information that we have so far to this point. So what we know is just before 8 o'clock this morning, a call came in for the report of a shooting in the 1500 block of 15th Street inside of a gym. Officers immediately were dispatched to this area, they were on scene within 30 seconds. Once they arrived on the scene, they did locate an adult male that had been shot, however multiple other calls came out for additional gunshots and victims. At this time, we have located a total of four individuals that were shot here on the scene and transported, and one individual who was deceased here on the scene. When officers got on the scene again, they began canvassing, attempting to locate the The suspect in this case. While they were on the scene, they were able to begin to, of course, clear the building where the shootings occurred. They also began to clear an apartment building in the 1500 block of 15th Street. While clearing that building, gunshots rang out on the seventh floor. And since that time, we have determined the suspect had barricaded themselves in an apartment on the seventh floor of that building. MPD's Emergency Response Team responded to the scene as well as additional resources from many federal partners, our patrol officers here to coordinate amongst the different agencies and to deploy resources here. Our negotiators with their Emergency Response Team were also able to make contact with the suspect inside the apartment. They've been talking to him for over the past hour, again attempting to try to resolve the situation. Just moments ago, while communicating with that individual, officers heard a gunshot. As a response to that, officers forced the entry into the apartment. When they did that, they located the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound. At this time, the scene is still fluid with that. They're still evaluating that to make sure we clear the entire building. We do believe that the suspect is now contained in that location, and, of course, emergency services will be rendered as appropriate to that. With that, again, this is very preliminary in the investigation. We know that there was a lot of people that were out here this morning when this came out. Our detectives have been interviewing individuals who may have seen or witnessed this. We would ask anyone who did potentially in the area, may have fled the area, to ensure they contact MPD. You can reach us at 202-727-9099 so we can follow with you and interview you. Obviously, there's a lot to this because there are multiple different scenes. What I mean by that is there are different locations where people were shot. I have to say that DC Fire and EMS was on the scene right away. We were able to coordinate with them to get medical treatment to the victims, get them off the scene where they've all been transported to local hospitals. Of those victims, the four that are surviving, one is determined to be in critical condition. At this point, the other three. Do not appear to be they appear to have non life threatening injuries. So with that, I'll take it up in any questions that you may have. Sure. As I said, we're very early in the investigation here. We do know based on the lookouts, it's a white male. We do have an idea who he is. We believe there were some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don't have much more than that. That will be part of the continuing investigation. Yes, ma'am. Sure. Again, we're very early in the investigation. We do know there was a conflict between him and the homeowners association of that building. But at this point, we're contained to look into that. Yes, ma'am. Sure. So we do believe at some point there was a fire that was set. The fire alarm went off in the building. The sprinklers in the building did go off. There is a large amount of water inside of that location. So we do believe at some point there was a fire in the building. It has been contained and put out at this time. We don't know that for sure. Obviously, we would kind of expect that would be it, but we can't say for sure at this point. Can you believe it? Let's go over here again. We're very early in the investigation. We're not sure what the relationship may or may not be. That is correct. There is one person that was shot and deceased inside the gym. We have some other individuals that were actually across the street working on a construction site. We have the report of another individual who was inside the lobby area or in the alley area. As you can imagine, we're not only investigating, but we're also interviewing those witnesses as they went to different hospitals. So we have officers there. Some are able to be interviewed right away. Some, based on their medical treatment, is going to take more time to interview to get more details on that. Thank you very much for that. The Press The Press Sure. So right now officers are still clearing the actual unit, but we do believe it was his unit inside of there. He did fire through the door at officers, at least on two occasions, while he was barricaded inside. This is because it came out as an active shooter. We have people that were actually being killed, so any law enforcement that will be in the area, we would expect them to come to stop that threat immediately. Yeah, I don't have any idea specifically about the government buildings. We did push out messaging to the community to avoid this area. We also pushed out a wireless emergency alert to, again, avoid this area while there was an active threat. And then, of course, once it transitioned into a barricade situation, we pushed that out as well. Well, man, can we get going? That's what we believe right now.