Full picture of Van Ness sniper damage slowly emerges

• Over 800 unused rounds were also found in the apartment, in addition to three more guns and thousands of rounds of ammo discovered at a Fairfax apartment. 

What they’re saying: D.C. police chief Robert Contee said that surveillance footage shows the suspect entering the AVA Van Ness apartment building with a suitcase around midnight the day before the Friday shooting that injured four. 

• A 54-year-old retired city police officer who worked at Edmund Burke school remains in the hospital, as does a woman who was struck with a bullet while in a vehicle. 
• “They are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination,” Contee said. 

Details: As police closed in on the shooter’s fifth-floor unit, Contee said he killed himself inside his bathroom, which he had turned into a “command center,” with a laptop, phone, and firearm. Police believe the shooter installed a security camera outside of his unit to monitor approaching officers.

• The shooter had moved into a Fairfax apartment in Feb. 2021, then rented the Van Ness unit this January, Contee said. 

• Conte added that police have not yet been able to determine a motive. 

But a fuller picture of the damage from the attack is beginning to emerge. Contee said bullets from the shooter's rifle could go “thousands of yards.”

• Two vehicles — including one belonging to a nearby embassy — were hit, in addition to two properties beyond Burke.