Doctor Killed Manager in DC Gym

James Stuart is dead, and so is the man police identified as the shooter, so there will be no charge, no plea, and no verdict. A lawsuit about mold and water is a civil claim about a condo, not a reason to kill someone. The criminal case ends because the suspect is gone.

Metropolitan Police say Dr. Matt Wade Lambert, 55, shot and killed James Stuart on Thursday morning inside a gym in Washington's Logan Circle, then killed himself in the condo upstairs.

Stuart, 46, was the property manager at the Metropole, in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest. Officers were called there at about 7:59 a.m. He was pronounced dead at VIDA Fitness, on the ground floor. Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll said Friday that video shows Lambert waited in the gym for nearly an hour, walked up behind Stuart, and fired without a word.

Lambert went to his seventh-floor unit and fired toward the street from a patio. Five other people were wounded. A woman grazed on the arm was checked at the scene and not admitted. Two were still in the hospital Friday, one of them critical but stable.

He barricaded himself and fired through the door at officers. They did not shoot back. After more than an hour on the phone, officers heard a gunshot, forced the door, and found him dead from a shot he fired himself. A handgun, a shotgun, and a rifle were in the apartment. All three were used, and none was registered in the District.

Carroll tied the shooting to a long dispute with the condominium association over mold and water damage. Court records show Lambert sued the association last year. He alleged that mold and water had made his penthouse unusable since 2024, after work on the building's exterior. He was not charged. He is dead.