Gunman Takes Own Life After Wounding 4 Near Elite Washington Preparatory School, Police Say

Washington, Metropolitan Police officers run with civilians while one of the officers keeps his weapon trained on a nearby building as police evacuate people to safety at the scene of a reported shooting and active shooter near Edmund Burke Middle School in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest Washington, on April 22, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

WASHINGTON—A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest in an apartment building near an elite prep school in the nation’s capital on Friday, wounding four people, before taking his own life as police closed in, officials said.

Police said the suspect, Raymond Spencer, 23, of suburban Fairfax, Virginia, was initially identified from video he had posted on social media that appeared to show gunshots fired from the vantage point of an upper-floor window, with the misspelled label: “Shool shooting!”