DC police reveal Logan Circle shooter waited nearly an hour, amassed ammo in condo

Okay, any questions? Questions? Yes, Megan. Sure. So yeah, good morning everybody in reference to yesterday's incident with the victims. So we do have a bit of an update we pushed out this morning. So in total we do have six victims that were involved in the shooting. We have the one individual that we announced yesterday who was deceased. We have five other individuals that were shot during that incident, three females and two males. You may remember yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon we spoke. We had identified four other individuals that have been shot. During our subsequent investigation, as we spoke with witnesses, we identified another individual who was actually inside of the gym that had a minor gunshot wound to her arm elbow area. She did not receive hospitalization treatment, but she did have treatment on the scene. So with that, right now, two of the victims are still hospitalized. Everyone else has been released. The other three individuals, as I mentioned, one did not go to the hospital, but the other two have been released. Yeah, so one of the two individuals that was shot yesterday is still in critical condition, but she is in stable condition. So when we interviewed her, she was inside the gym and she's not exactly sure where she got shot. She was inside the gym. The shooting occurred. As you know, people came outside the gym. She was also outside that area. So we're reviewing video information, but we know somewhere between the inside of the gym and being outside is when she received the injury. But she couldn't exactly pinpoint where that was at, if it was in the gym or when she came outside, when the shots were being fired from above. So we continue to investigate that. Yes, so we did check that. We did not have any 911 calls or any calls from service in the past seven days from that location, and the calls before that was actually for a theft from auto. There were no reports to us of any threats that we know of at this time. So we have not determined exactly where he received the guns from. He does originate from West Virginia, so we are working with both federal law enforcement and law enforcement in West Virginia to run that down and also determine where the guns were purchased at. Yes, we have interviewed the other witnesses, so we know that of the other witnesses, they were shot. Two were working on a construction site in the 1400 block of Church Street. We know one of the females who was still hospitalized, she was actually in the back kind of alley area, loading dock area of the building when she was shot as well. And we do believe there was a third person that was also out in kind of the front, the Church Street area over there, who was also struck. So we believe they were all outside of the area. But as I mentioned, the latest victim that we identified yesterday evening afternoon time frame, she's not exactly sure if it happened somewhere during the inside part or when she went outside. Yeah, so right now the Department of Forensic Science, they have finalized the processing in the crime scene there. The Department of Buildings was out yesterday afternoon. We were able to let the residents go inside and grab some pets and some medical things they may need, some things like that. So building management is working on coordinating that, but the Department of Buildings did say that the building is not inhabitable right now due to the water damage, the lack of gas, and there was some electricity that was shut off to the building as well. No, we have no indication there was any exchange of gunfire at this point. We do know, as I mentioned yesterday, that the suspect did shoot through the door at law enforcement, but we don't have any indication of any law enforcement returning fire or engaging him. Yes, I was inside of his apartment yesterday. As I mentioned, the inside walls, the sheetrock had been removed. There's a lot of pictures I know that are online that people have seen that he had posted. But the sheetrock had been removed. I mean, I mean, it's kind of the size, not too much that was inside there. There was furniture in there. There was, we found several hundred rounds of ammunition there. And I mentioned the accelerants, either a gasoline or a kerosene type that he had in there. Also, the damage to his fireplace and to the gas line that goes to the fireplace in there. And then, of course, as I mentioned yesterday, it's a two-story apartment, so there's actually a staircase that goes up to a patio area, and that's where he was shooting from up there. Yeah, no, there is video from inside the gym. It does capture the shooting. It does show, you know, the suspect shooting the victim. There doesn't appear to be any sort of conversation. He walks up behind him. So I'm not even sure that the victim knew that he was behind him. Yeah, so we believe that came from inside. There's actually a bullet hole that goes through the TV, that goes through the wall, that goes through that window. Because, as I mentioned, there was a high-powered, he had a rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun. It appears to be a rifle round that went through all those objects and went out the window. I mean, we believe there's some level of planning there. As I mentioned, there was gasoline inside or kerosene inside of the location. We do believe that he... Plotted this. We know that he had been in the gym for almost an hour before the victim walked in. So we do believe that he was waiting for him. And after that, he he had a plan of what he was going to do with that. This is getting a lot of attention. It's not the only time to see this. Dr. Gil, I don't think this is going to be so much good to see. But just having people reflect on the past days on this. First, I want to thank the police department, all of law enforcement, federal law enforcement who supported NPD, fire and EMS. Yes, I, my, um... Condolences continue to be with the family of the man who was lost to this violence yesterday and to the people who are recovering and to everybody who's been impacted, from the people who were in the gym to people who can't get back into their homes. So it is a significant tragedy, and my heart just breaks for everyone. Thank you. I am also extremely proud of how our law enforcement and emergency responders rose to the occasion and how our residents listened and that more people weren't hurt. And so that just is a testament to their training and leadership. Well, what I want them to know is that We have worked really hard to drive down a crime, and specifically gun crime in our city. And that's what we're seeing in neighborhoods all over Washington. But we do know that the presence of guns in the wrong person's hands can equal destruction. And so we can never lose sight on making sure we have every tool possible to rid people of guns who shouldn't have guns. Sure. So there was kind of multiple scenes within the condo. So there is the actual apartment that had to be processed. One of the challenges with that is there was not electricity in the apartment. So they had to hold the scene overnight. They couldn't continue to process. So part of that time frame is just securing it to make sure no evidence is tampered with. There also were some shell casings on another floor in the building. So they had to do all that, to process all that. And there was also on the seventh floor outside of the apartment, there was another area where there was additional evidence. So You know, it's very important to go through and thoroughly document this, recover all the evidence for DNA and processing overall. So it does take time. We talked about it yesterday how it was a little... Thank you. Now, speaking with the negotiators, majority of his conversation was about the HOA, the condo association and his concerns with that. He didn't get into any kind of conversation about that. Yeah, we don't know how far back it is. We do believe he was planning because he had obviously amassed the objects that were there, the ammunition, the accelerants that he had there. So obviously it shows a level of pre-planning. We know that he was there waiting for the individual. But how far back, we don't know that. Thank you.