​Condo dispute shadows deadly Washington shooting

Washington, Nov 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) A former emergency room doctor who spent months describing a bitter dispute over his Washington apartment to a reporter was identified as the gunman in a shooting that killed the building’s manager and wounded four other people on Thursday, The Washington Sun has reported.

Matt Lambert had spoken of dwindling retirement savings, sleeplessness and life inside a stripped-down penthouse. The newspaper’s account of those interviews offers a glimpse into the dispute preceding the violence, but does not establish why he opened fire.

Citing police, the Sun reported that Lambert killed building manager James Stuart at the fitness centre on the ground floor of the condominium building shortly before 8 a.m. He then shot four other people nearby before returning to his apartment and killing himself, the newspaper reported.

One of the four wounded people was in critical condition. The others had injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the report.

The account was written by Michael Brice-Saddler, who interviewed Lambert in November and December 2025 while working for The Washington Post. He twice visited Lambert’s gutted penthouse, but the planned article was abandoned after the reporter was laid off early this year.

Brice-Saddler wrote that Lambert never indicated during those interviews that he would resort to violence.

“It’s affected every part of my life — my sleep, dietary habits,” Lambert told him in December.

“I pride myself on my resilience, and I’ve been kind of surprised at how much it has been affected.”

Lambert alleged that water leaks and mould had made his apartment unliveable following work on the building’s facade. He described a prolonged confrontation with the condominium association, Stuart and the property management company.

The newspaper disclosed a significant limitation in that account: Brice-Saddler had not completed his reporting and had never presented Lambert’s allegations to Stuart or EJF for their response. The Sun said it could not reach the company earlier on Thursday.

Lambert sued the condominium association in March 2025, alleging negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and nuisance, the newspaper reported. The association denied responsibility.

By December, Lambert said, he had spent nearly $200,000 on legal and engineering fees and borrowed against his retirement savings. He described living with a couch and desk in the stripped-down apartment.

He had bought the penthouse for $1.1 million in 2016 and wanted to sell it and move to New York, according to the report.

Much of his attention appeared to be consumed by the dispute. Brice-Saddler described a whiteboard used to track grievances, flyers distributed around the neighbourhood and open houses where Lambert showed residents his engineering reports.

Those details were drawn largely from Lambert’s own account and the reporter’s visits. They do not independently establish the merits of his allegations against the building’s management.

The shooting took place in Washington’s Logan Circle neighbourhood. Police initially warned people to avoid the area around 15th and P streets Northwest, then reported a barricade situation in the 1500 block of 15th Street as emergency response officers worked at the scene.

Lambert had worked as an emergency room doctor for two decades before moving into healthcare technology, according to the Sun. His subsequent career included medical information leadership roles with hospital systems in Seattle and New York.

Source: IANS