DC mass shooting suspect posted online during rampage: report

Suspected gunman Raymond Spencer allegedly updated the Wikipedia page for the Edmund Burke School, a prep school across from the apartment building where the alleged sniper was located, writing, "A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still at large," The Washington Post reported.

"Dear God please forgive me," a user named Raymond Spencer posted on the 4chan online message board four minutes after shots were reported, The Post reported. The user later wrote: "Waiting for police to catch up with me."

Video of the mass shooting was also posted on the 4chan site.

Three adults, including two women and a man, and a 12-year-old girl were wounded by the gunfire. The victims were hospitalized in stable condition.

Authorities said the gunman appeared to fire randomly over 100 rounds.

Spencer committed suicide as police closed in on the fifth-floor apartment where he was suspected of carrying out the attack with what authorities described as a "sniper-style setup," according to the New York Post. He allegedly fired indiscriminately around 3:20 pm in the Northwest section of the city.

DC officers discovered a loot of weapons at the suspected gunman's home. Police recovered six firearms and multiple rounds of ammunition in the suspect’s Van Ness Street residence. It appeared that the weapons were legally purchased.

The Post Millennial's editor-at-large Andy Ngo noted that the photo of the room where DC law enforcement found the deceased mass shooting suspect and multiple firearms has an illustration of Yakub, a figure in Nation of Islam ideology. The Nation of Islam is a black nationalist Islamic movement and political group.

Spencer, a Filipino American, was found dead in the apartment with the Nation of Islam image. "Several of its adherents have carried out deadly attacks on law enforcement, white people and Jews in recent years," Ngo reported.

Earlier in the day, the DC police released photos of the 23-year-old person of interest from nearby Fairfax, Virginia. Metropolitan Police Department chief Robert Contee said it appeared the victims were targeted at random while "going about their business … on the streets of the District of Columbia."

"This was very much a sniper-type setup with a tripod and this person obviously his intent was to kill and hurt members of this community," Contee said.

Friday afternoon's shooting forced local schools in the area to lock down and residents to shelter in place. Edmund Burke, a preparatory school for students in grades six through 12, Howard University Law School, as well as the University of the District of Columbia are all located in the vicinity of the shooting.