WASHINGTON — One person was killed and four others were wounded Thursday in a shooting at and outside a gym in a trendy Washington neighborhood. The suspect took his own life, authorities said.

The shooting began just before 8 a.m. as people inside the VIDA Fitness location near Logan Circle did their morning workouts, police and witnesses said.

VIDA Fitness owner David von Storch told MS NOW that the victim who was killed was a long-term member of the gym and a building engineer. He said the shooting happened in front of other gym members.

Jeffery Carroll, the interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, stressed that the investigation into the shooter’s motives had just begun, but authorities are aware of “a conflict between him and the homeowners association of that building.”

When officers arrived at the gym, they found a man who had been shot, Carroll said. Multiple other calls then came in reporting additional gunshots and victims outside the gym.

Police found the suspect on the seventh floor of an apartment building nearby. Officers engaged in talks with him for about an hour before hearing a gunshot. They then forced their way in and found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Carroll said.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters that the White House has been briefed on the shooting.

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