Loved ones honor DC gym shooting victim James Stuart

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Nov 14, 2026
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We're hearing from more people
who knew that first victim, James Stewart.
Fox 5's Julie Donaldson reports from Northwest.
Well, this is a very tight-knit community,
and all day long, we've been seeing people
coming by this memorial,
paying their respects and giving tributes to what happened here,
and really just trying to make sense of what happened here yesterday.
Now, the Vita Fitness, that is where the one gentleman,
James Stewart, was killed.
He was just going there for his daily morning
workout before he would head to his place
of work, which is right here, the Metropole Condominiums.
And now his friends are remembering a man
that they say was always there for everyone.
He was...
Bold. He was brave. He was definitely sassy.
But most of all, he was just a very giving person,
like the type to give you anything you would need.
He was constantly having people over his
apartment, staying the night, sleeping on the couch,
you know, putting people up for a month
at a time. So just a very giving person.
He was very helpful, very responsive.
Thank you for being so responsive.
If you needed any assistance, you know, he would respond quickly.
He was a decent man and, you know, it's very, very challenging.
It's difficult for me to process the fact that this happened to him.
Stewart was the property manager at the Metropole,
the condominium building where the gunman,
Dr. Matt Lambert, lived. Stewart was also named
in a lawsuit Lambert filed against the Condominium
Association, detailing a long list
of complaints about conditions inside his million-dollar unit.
Among them, water damage and mold,
complaints Lambert had also made public on his ex-account.
Residents say they were aware
of Lambert's ongoing dispute with the building,
but nothing could have prepared them for what happened next,
Next, a shooting that left six people wounded and one dead before...
Lambert took his own life.
The gunman set off a fire in his unit in the building
and that set off the sprinkler system,
which has put a lot of water in the building.
It is now uninhabitable.
Today, between one and five residents were able
to come by and be able to pick up things
that they needed here from the building,
not knowing just how long they're going to be
misplaced as they do assess the damage.
Meanwhile, there's also local businesses around
the area that are suffering from water damage
as well.
Not sure how long until they can open their doors as well.
