Washington Navy Yard. Less than a mile from the U.S. Capitol, I believe.
The Navy Yard is an extremely secure facility! Documents with the highest classification!
This post stuck here for a while so that updates can be added as they occur.
For local coverage that is really on top of developments, go to WUSA.
PASTORIUS UPDATE - This is a Secure Operations building - highly classified - The War Plans are in this building.
FOX NEWS PUT UP A SCROLL A FEW MINUTES AGO, SAYING, "AMBULANCES ARRIVE ON SCENE WITH POLICE ESCORT.
I have never heard of ambulances being given a Police Escort before.
This could mean one of two things,
1) they anticipated terrible traffic problems, so they believe they needed a convoy of Emergency vehicles all with sirens blaring (but frankly, that would just cause even more trouble,
or
2) THEY BELIEVE THIS IS A TERRORIST OPERATION WHICH MAY ROLL OUT IN STAGES, and that a stage might be planned wherein Emergency responders are attacked.
THIS COULD BE THE FIRST STAGE OF JIHADIST ATTACKS IRAN THREATENED US WITH IN RESPONSE TO SYRIA.
RELATED? - This story came out yesterday - FBI WARNS: MUSLIM TERRORISTS PLAN TO ATTACK FUEL STORAGE PLANTS INSIDE U.S.
AOW here....This facility houses the command center for naval operations in the eastern Mediterranean.
4 civilians and one officer shot.
Another man shot very close to one of the Navy Yard's gates @ New Jersey and M.
All flights at DCA (Reagan Washington National) are grounded indefinitely.
11th Street Bridge is closed and being used as triage center.
Streets being closed all over D.C., including those around Capitol Hill.
PASTORIUS - This photograph (picked up from Twitter) seems to indicate the shooter SHOT HIS WAY INTO THE BUILDING.
AOW here....Local news now stating that at least 10 people have been shot.
PASTORIUS -
NBC4 Washington: Four Dead, 12 Shot at D.C. Navy Yard; Active Shooter Still At Large
live feed Washington DC Fire, and EMS Live Audio Feed
Shooter 'contained'...
3,000 workers told to 'shelter in place'...
NBC: At least 2 cops among victims...
Flights halted out of Reagan airport...
WH: 'Citizens: Listen to the Authorities'...
KRLA LOS ANGELES RADIO: SHOOTER DESCRIBED AS A "BLACK MALE, WITH A BEARD, WEARING A CAP"
3,000 workers told to 'shelter in place'...
NBC: At least 2 cops among victims...
Flights halted out of Reagan airport...
WH: 'Citizens: Listen to the Authorities'...
KRLA LOS ANGELES RADIO: SHOOTER DESCRIBED AS A "BLACK MALE, WITH A BEARD, WEARING A CAP"
MULTIPLE SHOOTERS ARE BEING REPORTED BY SOME SOURCES NOW, INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST:
WaPo sticking with three gunmen, according to police spokeswoman
WaPo
One of the shooters is “down,” police said, but two remain in a building on the grounds.
One of the shooters at large is dressed in fatigues. At least one has a long gun, police said.
PASTORIUS COMMENT - I'm pretty sure the first few people shot were Law Enforcement, as the shooters tried blasting their way into the building. I believe the shooters shot their way in, because of the photograph higher up in this article, which shows people attending to a downed person OUTSIDE the Naval Yard buildings.
This would indicate that shots were fired BEFORE THE SHOOTERS EVEN ENTERED THE BUILDING, or at the entrance.
IMAGINE WHAT THIS MUST BE LIKE FOR THE POLICE WHO ARE RESPONDING.
D.C. Naval Yard Shooting Thread II: Police Enter Building, More Shots Heard – Update: NBC Says Two Separate Shooting Locations – Update: Reports Say 8 Dead
Report of shots fired at Bolling AFB, couple of miles from Navy Yard
AOW here....Video interview of a few witnesses. Apparently there were no shots fired at Bolling AFB. But emergency vehicles did leave the Navy Yard and head down I-95 South.
One shooter dead.
From ABC News:
...The shooter is described as a former Navy official in his fifties whose work status was recently changed. His name has not been released....PASTORIOUS CUTTING IN:
| CNN forgets Fort Hood: 'I've Never Heard of Such a Thing Happening'... Navy Official 2:00 pm(ish): This is not over Police still say they believe two other shooters may be on the loose. at 2:10 press briefing D.C. police now confirm 12 dead still looking for a white male wearing tan military/navy uniform & beret and a black male 40-50 olive uniform 5'10" about 180 lbs medium complexion gray sideburns FBI taking over in manhunt for these 2 area residents encouraged to stay in |
AOW here....One of the potential suspects -- the white man -- has now been ruled out by the police.
Dead suspect now identified as Aaron Alexis of Texas.
Washington Nationals to Play in the Wake of Shooting. The stadium is just a few scant blocks from the Navy Yard. UPDATE: Game postponed to tomorrow.
This appears to be Aaron Alexis:
According to the Washington Post:
...The first, sketchy details about the suspect give no hints about what may have gone wrong.NBC released this photograph of Aaron Alexis:
Aaron Alexis, 34, grew up in Brooklyn with his mother, Sarah, and father, Anthony Alexis, according to his aunt Helen Weeks.
“We haven’t seen him for years,” Weeks said of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.”
A 2007 Navy Times feature cites an Aaron Alexis as having graduated from Navy boot camp that year from the Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Its unclear if this is the same Alexis, but the newspaper listed his occupational specialty as an airman recruit. A deleted web profile of an Aaron Alexis listed him as being stationed at Naval Air Station in Fort Worth.
Officials said police theorize that there may be additional shooters because of witness accounts and surveillance video among other information. One of those officials also said all the weapons were not accounted for....
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