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10 people injured in naval facility shooting; Pentagon ‘believes there has been loss of life’

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has sent a team of about 20 special agents to help authorities as they work to contain a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, a law enforcement official told CNN’s Evan Perez Monday. The team is the same one that helped apprehend Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the official said.

[Breaking news update at 11:10 a.m. Monday]

The Pentagon “believes there has been loss of life” in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Pentagon spokesman George Little told CNN on Monday. He had no other details.

[Original story, posted at 11:09 a.m. Monday]

Two law officers among 10 people injured in naval facility shooting

(CNN) -- A gunman dressed in all black fired shots Monday inside the U.S. Navy Yard, injuring at least 10 people, according to the Navy and a Washington police spokesman.

The U.S. Navy tweeted there are “several confirmed injuries with reports of fatalities.”

The injured included a Washington police officer who has been hospitalized, and a base security guard officer, said Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Saray Leon.

The incident occurred at 8:20 a.m. when several shots were fired inside the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command in southeast Washington. An “active shooter” remained inside the building, the Navy said.

Helicopters hovered overhead as police with riot and SWAT team gear swarmed the scene.

Police spokesman Chris Kelly described the suspect as an adult male, about 6 feet tall with a bald head and medium complexion, dressed in a black top and black jeans.

Two witnesses told CNN affiliate WJLA that they heard a fire alarm go off in the building where they worked, then saw a man with a rifle down the hallway as they exited the building.

“He aimed the gun and fired our way,” a man who identified himself as Todd Brundidge told WJLA, adding, “I couldn’t believe it.”

People frantically tried to run out of the building, Brundidge said.

“Everyone was going down the stairs. They were pushing. They were shoving. People were falling down,” he told WJLA. “As we came outside, people were climbing the wall trying to get over the wall to get out of the spaces. It was just crazy.”

Emergency personnel, the FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and local D.C. police responded to the shooting, shutting down traffic in the area on the District’s south side along the Anacostia River. Some people are being evacuated, and others are sheltering in place.

At least six schools were on lockdown as a precaution, the Washington public schools said in a Twitter post.

Air traffic to Reagan National Airport in northern Virginia, the closest airport to downtown Washington, was suspended but later resumed, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

A White House statement said President Barack Obama was briefed on the situation.

The headquarters -- the workplace for about 3,000 people -- is the largest of the Navy’s five system commands. It has a fiscal year budget of nearly $30 billion.

“With a force of 60,000 civilian, military and contract support personnel, NAVSEA engineers, builds, buys and maintains the Navy’s ships and submarines and their combat systems,” the Navy said.

The Washington Navy Yard -- the Navy’s oldest land establishment -- was created in 1799 following an act of Congress, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. Originally envisioned as a shipbuilding and fitting facility on the Anacostia River, it serviced some of the Navy’s most famous early vessels, including the USS Constitution.

Burned during the War of 1812, the Navy Yard was transformed into a center for ordnance and technological development. The facility was the world’s largest ordnance plant during World War II, but its military role steadily diminished during the Cold War era.

Today, the Navy Yard includes the headquarters of Naval District Washington and is home to a naval museum. The area around the facility has been marked in recent years by significant commercial and residential revitalization.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
 
From what I've heard, they were thinking it's more than one guy.
 
Can't even imagine what I'd do or think in a situation like that. I pray for the best for the victims and their families.
 
My brother in law is stationed there. It was on his floor. He was at the dentist this morning. Nuts man, nuts.
 
Hes ok. 13 dead I think. Guy was discharged from the Navy a bit beforehand. Motive yep to be determined but they do have a statement from his landlord that he felt he was discharged because someone didnt like him.
 
I'll be the a******. This is technically a legitimate target. At least if this guy was a revolutionist instead of a plain old psycho. It's the kind of place we'd drone the s*** out of and not blink an eye even if there were civilians inside. So the next time everyone wants to talk about how horrible this is, and it is horrible, don't forget that we're doing the same thing.
 
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Uh.... ok.

This sounds like a work place violence thing that is just incidentally related to the military.

Oddly, I got the impression many people followed orders to hide in their offices. I would have thought other people on a base would have guns and take this guy down.
 
Videodrome said:
Uh.... ok.

This sounds like a work place violence thing that is just incidentally related to the military.

Oddly, I got the impression many people followed orders to hide in their offices. I would have thought other people on a base would have guns and take this guy down.
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They don't allow the carrying of firearms on bases.
 
That seems f***ed up somehow.

What if we ever faced troops on the ground attacking the homeland and it turned out the people in our military bases are unarmed.
 
Videodrome said:
That seems f***ed up somehow.

What if we ever faced troops on the ground attacking the homeland and it turned out the people in our military bases are unarmed.
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They would be slaughtered, but it's for the safety of the troops....

Let me add that MP's (military police) are allowed to carry firearms....
 
This is incredibly damaging to the official media narrative of “another guy bought a AR-15 and committed a massacre,” if this is true:

Survellance video shows the gunman entered the NAVSEA building, at 1336 Isaac Hull Ave., with a shotgun, law enforcement officials told News4′s Jackie Bensen.

He shot a security officer in the head, killing him, and took his 9 mm pistol and a magazine of ammunition. The shooter then continued through the building and seemed to target his victims, who were mostly on the third and fourth floors, Bensen reported.

D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and several other law enforcement agencies responded with active shooter teams.

During that response, a MPD officer was shot in the leg. The gunman was then shot by a FBI hostage response team, law enforcement sources told Bensen.

According to what witnesses are telling investigators, by the time the shootings ended, the gunman was seen with a semiautomatic 9 mm pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle. Authorities are investigating whether the gunman took the D.C. police officers’ rifle.

This report states that the shooter, Aaron Alexis, was armed only with a shotgun as he entered the building. He then ambushed first responders and took their weapons and ammunition, creating his arsenal by acquisition as he carried out his attack.

If this account is true, there is a chance that the rifle in question was not an AR-15, but a selective-fire M4 or M16.

If that proves to be the case, then this would be the first time in the history of the United States that a legal (until it was taken), selective-fire assault rifle was used in a violent crime.

Update: A national NBC News report confirms that Alexis collected the rifle and pistol used in the shooting, but slightly changes the story to claim that the rifle was taken from a gun safe:

He packed an assault rifle and two other firearms during his lethal rampage — including a shotgun purchased just weeks ago at a Virginia gun shop, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News.
The officials also said Alexis obtained the assault rifle used in the shooting from a gun safe on the naval base. There’s where he may have also obtained a handgun, according to authorities.
One official who spoke to NBC News, however, cautioned there are still outstanding questions about where and how Alexis acquired the weapons used in the massacre.

Are Navy Shore Police, NCIS agents, Marines, or other security personnel at the Navy Yard in the habit of leaving gun safes open?

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Just another tidbit
 
What a sad news. :( What even sadder is that it'll happen again. And again. And again. What a shame.
 
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All blame to GTA V!! :crazy:
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It sounds silly to you and me, but the people who want to censor games will get a lot of mileage out of this one.

Is the Fact Aaron Alexis Played Violent Video Games a Relevant Detail?

Alexis, 34, who was shot dead on Monday after killing 13 people at Washington's Navy Yard, also carried a .45 handgun tucked in his trousers with no holster "everywhere he went" because he believed people would try to steal his belongings.

He also felt racially discriminated against, and believed he had been financially "screwed" over a contracting job in Japan at the end of last year, friends said. They also said that he was working in a nearby building when the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center went down following the September 11 terrorism attacks.

The addiction to violent video games and guns was at odds with his devout commitment to Buddhism, which saw Alexis spending half the day every Sunday meditating at the Wat Busayadhammvanaram temple in Fort Worth, Texas over a period of several years. He also spent a month in Thailand in April, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. - Telegraph.co.uk
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How dumb was that guy....only 65 more days and next gen is here.

So I can blame guns or video games......is there a third choice?
 
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Here we go again, the dead horse being beaten once again, that dead horse being, violent video games lead people to go on mass killing sprees...

http://kotaku.com/driven-to-kill-by-call-of-duty-question-mark-1339907169@stephentotilo

I'm so sick and tired of this.

Hands down guns are not the problem. It's the people, and moreover the processes like background checks that fail.

Any psycho who decides to go on mass killings is going to do it one way or another whether they have a gun.

Hell, here in Houston, a kid at a local community college went on a stabbing spree with a scalpel from his health class...
 
"Why I'd rather wear a veil than nipple tassels".

This is a quality source.
 
It's a little strange that he was a devout Buddhist and still decided to go on a rampage over money he felt he was entitled to. In Buddhism you are supposed to be free of desire.

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