The Washington Sun's Michael Brice-Saddler recounts reporting he began in late 2025, when former ER doctor Matt Lambert pitched a story about how his $1.1 million Metropole penthouse had been rendered unlivable by leaks and black mold, and describes the yearlong legal fight with the condo association, building manager James Stuart, and EJF Real Estate Services that Lambert said consumed his savings, sleep, and life. After that unpublished story was abandoned when Brice-Saddler was laid off from The Washington Post, D.C. police say Lambert shot and killed Stuart at the building's gym on November 12, 2026, wounded four others, and killed himself.