00:00A gunman who went on an early morning shooting spree in a fashionable D.C. neighborhood less
00:05than a mile from the White House has been identified. The shooter who killed one person
00:09and injured four others in a Logan Circle building has been revealed as Dr. Matt Lambert,
00:14an experienced emergency room doctor, who also held a major grudge against his building's
00:19Homeowners Association, or HOA, over alleged black mold in his home. The mayhem began shortly
00:25before 8 a.m. at Vita Fitness Center in Logan Circle, located about seven-tenths of a mile
00:30from the executive mansion. Lambert, who lived on the seventh floor in the same building as the
00:35fitness center, opened fire inside the ground floor gym, as an estimated 50 gym goers were working out.
00:41About a little bit after eight, we heard shots being fired, and within seconds there was a man
00:50who fell to the ground and a pool of blood came out. One gym member rushed to help him. He
00:56was
00:56instantly dead. He had been shot in the neck. We were still trying to register where that happened,
01:00so we all escaped. We ran outside, and within seconds there were gunfire just north of the gym
01:08on 15th Street, and then after that the police came. After killing the building's manager, James Stewart,
01:16in the gym, Lambert then ran back up to his apartment and barricaded himself inside, firing
01:21off more shots from his balcony, which injured four other victims. So when the suspect was barricading
01:27himself into the building after police came onto the scene, he shot at them when they tried to get in.
01:34He tried to set the building on fire. Police said when they went into the building, the fire alarm was
01:40going off, sprinklers were raining down on them, they could smell gas. Fortunately, they were able to get
01:45that under control. Police said they negotiated with the shooter for nearly an hour to try to coax
01:49him out of his pad, up until the doctor committed suicide. Now, police are parsing through shocking
01:55potential motives after discovering the wealthy doc's twisted manifesto. In a post on X, only minutes
02:01before he opened fire, Lambert wrote,
02:03quote, my manifesto is an engineering report. Attached to the post was a report which cited, quote,
02:09suspected microbial growth, along with water intrusion and a hefty bill to, quote, rehabilitate the wall of his
02:15home. Lambert had developed an apparent obsession with alleged leaks, mold, and rodent infestation in his
02:21building, ranting about it dozens of times on X in recent months.
02:25Northeast corner, notice the
02:31preponderance of mold closer to the ceiling that grows less as we get to the floor.
02:36The ER doc who completed his residency at West Virginia University had even sued his homeowners
02:41association, the Metropole Condominium Association, in March 2025, alleging that repairs to the building,
02:48which involved it being surrounded by scaffolding and drapes, led to mold festering in his
02:52$1.1 million home. In Lambert's suit, he alleged that his home experienced, quote,
02:57no significant water intrusion, mold, moldy smells, moisture accumulation, or related damage,
03:03prior to the remediation efforts overseen by the association.
03:06But after the building was enveloped, his unit, quote, experienced suspected water intrusion,
03:11mold, significant moisture accumulation, and or related damage. On November 11th, Lambert posted pictures
03:17showing renovations in his Logan Circle unit with the caption,
03:21two years of living in luxury, and the start of six months with no shower, dryer, HVAC, and cooking.
03:27On his personal website, Lambert described himself as a medical tech executive and a, quote,
03:32board-certified emergency physician with over two decades of clinical experience.
03:37Lambert was also an author and posted a video on X in 2019, promoting his self-published book,
03:43Unrest Insured, which is about the health care industry.
03:46First step in Medicare for All is to put the public option in the exchanges. They were meant to be
03:51there in the original bill. They were lobbied out. If there is a low-cost alternative within the
03:57exchanges, you can save that. And that will be the next logical step on our three-and-a-half-decade
04:02journey towards a comprehensive health care solution such as Medicare for All.
04:07The doc also said he split his time between the, quote, mountains of West Virginia and the Logan
04:11Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. D.C. police said they were investigating a conflict
04:16with the Home Runners Association as the reason behind the shooting.
