An active shooter was killed on Tuesday at Fort Detrick, Maryland, base officials announced in a tweet.
The alleged gunman was a Navy hospital corpsman, the Navy announced on Tuesday. So far, the shooter has not been publicly identified.
“Fort Detrick Police have neutralized an active shooter situation involving an armed gunman and medical lifesaving procedures were initiated,” the tweet says. “The gunman was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Two people who were reportedly injured on Tuesday in an off-post shooting were listed in critical condition, according to a CBS News station in Baltimore.
After the shooting, the gunman allegedly breached the Nalin Pond gate off Opposumtown Pike before being killed, a message on Fort Detrick’s Facebook page says.
“Our number one priority is the safety of our people,” Col. Dexter Nunnally, the garrison commander, said in the Facebook post. “Our emergency responders are well trained for these types of situations and the fast response of our military police enabled us to contain this threat quickly.”
Fort Detrick and local law enforcement are continuing to investigate this incident.
Few other details of the shooting were immediately available other than it involved sailors, according to a statement from the Navy.
Fort Detrick is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which conducts research on Ebola and other deadly diseases.
This is a developing news story and will be updated with additional information as it becomes available.
Featured image: The entrance for Fort Detrick on Monday, March 9, 2020, in Frederick, Md.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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