‘Multiple people’ shot at fitness centre in Washington: Official

WASHINGTON – The police are responding to a shooting in downtown Washington, about 1.6km from the White House, on Nov 12 as a local official said “multiple people” were shot at a fitness centre.The Washington police department said on X that its emergency response team was on the scene of the “active shooting” in the Logan Circle area of the nation’s capital.Brooke Pinto, a member of the D.C. City Council, said the shooting occurred at and outside a fitness centre and “multiple people” had been shot.She said the police were looking for a suspect.Residents were urged to avoid the area of the shooting, which occurred during the busy morning rush hour and sparked a massive police response.Multiple law enforcement agencies could be seen rushing to the scene of the shooting.The Washington Sun quoted a member of the VIDA Fitness gym as saying that he was on a treadmill at the facility when the shooting began.Michael Carney said he heard a “pop” and then saw someone on the gym floor who had been shot in the head.“Everyone was kind of just hiding behind planters and stuff,” Carney told The Sun. AFP