États-Unis : un tireur fait un mort et quatre blessés en plein Washington
A gunman killed one person and injured four others Thursday morning in a commercial and residential area of the US capital, Washington, located not far from the White House, before turning the gun on himself.
The shooting took place in and around a gym at around 8:00 a.m. local time, police said during a press conference near the scene.
The suspect, located holed up in a neighboring apartment, was "declared dead at the scene," Washington police said on X late this morning.
He had barricaded himself inside and was found with "what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound," explained his chief, Jeffery Carroll, shortly beforehand. Carroll described him only as "a white man."
Alerted just before 8:00 a.m. to shots fired at a gym located a little over a kilometer from the White House, "we have identified a total of four people who were shot and evacuated, and one person who died at the scene," the police official said.
Among the injured, "one is in critical condition" while the other three "have non-life-threatening injuries," he explained.
The shootings, which occurred during rush hour in the US capital, triggered a major police deployment, including a helicopter flying over the area and dozens of vehicles mobilized in the Logan Circle area and near surrounding subway stations.
Michael Carney was exercising on a treadmill when the shots rang out. He told the Washington Sun that he saw someone on the floor in the gym, shot in the head.
"Everyone was hiding behind flower pots and things like that," he described.
Early Thursday, a local elected official, Brooke Pinto, indicated that shots had been fired inside and around a gym and that "several people" had been hit.
Washington police quickly indicated on X that they were deployed to the scene of "an ongoing shooting".
In a second message, she added that the suspect had barricaded himself inside and called on residents to avoid the area.
Among the first elements of the investigation, the police briefly mentioned a "conflict with the building's co-owners' association" in which the shooter had taken refuge.
Gun violence is a part of everyday life in the United States, which has more guns in circulation than inhabitants.
Neither successive governments nor Congress have been able to stem the shootings because many Americans remain very attached to the right to bear arms, guaranteed by the Constitution.
The predominantly conservative US Supreme Court will debate in December the rights of states and local authorities to ban, due to their dangerousness, the possession of certain AR-15 type semi-automatic rifles, among the most popular weapons in the country.
AFP
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