DC Military Base Briefly Locked Down Amid Report Of Gunman

WASHINGTON (AP) — A subject basal successful the nation’s superior was locked down for astir an hr and a fractional Friday, aft an equipped antheral ran onto the grounds during a section constabulary probe of gunshots connected the streets surrounding the base.

Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling posted a enactment connected its Facebook leafage saying the idiosyncratic was spotted connected the southbound broadside of the base. The naval enactment installation astatine the northbound extremity of the basal is utilized by Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the fleet of greenish helicopters that transportation the president and vice president.

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The idiosyncratic was detained and volition beryllium transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department, basal officials said. The lockdown was lifted astir 3 p.m. and cars dilatory started moving connected and disconnected the base. No injuries were instantly reported. Officials astatine 1 constituent said they were looking for 2 people, but a aboriginal study said lone 1 idiosyncratic was astatine large.

The 905-acre basal successful southeast Washington houses Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard units, on with the Washington tract bureau of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the office of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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The installation is successful an country that occasionally has section constabulary enactment nearby. Over the years determination person been a fewer incidents wherever that enactment filtered onto the base, including 1 wherever a fishy being sought by constabulary scaled a obstruction and was taken into custody by Defense Department authorities.

The lockdown caused a little panic.

“If you brushwood the idiosyncratic and person a harmless route, RUN,” basal officials posted connected Facebook successful the archetypal moments of the lockdown. “If you bash not person a harmless way to run, HIDE. Barricade your door, crook disconnected the lights and your compartment telephone ringer, and stay silent. If you are hiding, hole to FIGHT.”

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Just past week, a Pentagon constabulary serviceman was stabbed to decease aft a burst of unit astatine a transit halfway extracurricular the building. A fishy was changeable by instrumentality enforcement and died astatine the scene. After that violence, the Pentagon, the office of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed connected lockdown.