Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser, alongside Metropolitan Police Department chief Jeffrey W. Carroll, speaks to the press near the scene of the shooting in Washington, DC. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: A disgruntled tenant shot one person dead and wounded four in an upscale neighborhood of downtown Washington on Thursday before barricading himself in his apartment and killing himself, police said.
The shooting, which occurred about a mile north of the White House, sparked a massive police response in the nation's capital with dozens of law enforcement vehicles racing to the scene and police helicopters hovering overhead.
Jeffery Carroll, Washington's interim police chief, told reporters that the gunman had fatally shot one person in a fitness center attached to his apartment building and wounded four others before barricading himself in his apartment.
